Spectris Innovation Centre, Moreira Office Space, Portuguese Building Project, Architecture Images
Spectris Innovation Centre in Moreira
27 Mar 2020
Spectris Innovation Centre
Architects: Studium
Location: Rua Vasconcelos Costa, Moreira, Portugal

The design of the Spectris Innovation Centre Porto facilities was presented as a self-inflicted exercise. The lack of referential context, caused by the decision to expand one of the existing building’s bodies to a completely inert attached warehouse space, was the starting point for the study of the interior occupation and an exterior building, as well as for the design and functional dynamics between the multiple contact spaces of both lots.

The privileged location next to Porto airport, subway and highways helped in the decision taken to occupy the neighboring building. The set of about 650 square meters is characterized by its configuration in a warehouse of rectangular volumetry, with its longitudinal axis oriented northeast-southwest and with a central nave.
The division is vertical and takes place on 02 floors in the area of the existing offices (north) and an access to a backyard patio with about 500 square meters (south).

The entrance is the first functional unit that defines the symbiosis between the past and the innovation requested to the present. This is the premise on which the creative concept for the project is supported, through an ambitious program for the creation and distribution of around 60 open spa...