Foztua

The Tua Valley Interpretive Centre (TVIC) is installed in two former railway warehouses that were unoccupied in the Tua station, in opposite sides of the Douro line, and the program that was proposed for each of them explored the complementarity and the character of each building. Intervening in the impressive landscape of Douro is a huge challenge and a great privilege. With this responsibility, we developed the project with the idea of ​​memory and transformation always present, seeking that the observation of values ​​of the place pointed out clues for the change. The railway context was also in itself a factor of organization of the existing constructions, introducing a longitudinal vision of the whole set (besides all the sec... More