Urbo Business Centre, Porto Office Building, Portuguese Architecture, Architecture Images
Urbo Business Centre in Porto
Modern Office Building in Portugal – design by Nuno Capa Arquitecto
15 May 2019
Urbo Business Centre
Architects: Nuno Capa Arquitecto
Location: Porto, Portugal

The Urbo Business Centre is a building for offices and services located in Matosinhos, in the Metropolitan Area of Porto.

Characterised by the single volume, with a detached implantation of rectangular geometry, the building is inserted in a corner plot with about 6000 sqm.

With a total construction area of 25600 sqm, the building comprises a total of eight floors, six of which above ground for offices, and two basement floors with 200 underground parking spaces, with the exception of an area on the west side on the 1st floor, also on the basement level, suitable for service providers.
The sidewalks, wider on the north and on the south of the building, establish the importance of creating a double entrance in opposite facades. These two entrances, which, in turn, originate a crossing line, meet themselves in the core of the building – a foyer with the total height of about 24m.

The foyer is an empty space, but vital in the spatial and functional organisation of the building, where a large skylight reinforces the importance of the place. This foyer sets the distribution of the building, with two vertical access cores, stairs and group of elevators, taking to the upper floors of off...