Open House Porto

3 LIPOR II Maia Infraestruturas Grupo 3 Arquitectos Associados e TECNOPOR 1992 / 1999 Sat 10am, 11.30am, 2.30pm and 4pm, Miguel Silva (LIPOR Technician);Appropriate footwear (closed) compulsory. It is compulsory to wear PPE, to be provided by the organisation. reservas marcação pré-marcação Located in Moreira da Maia, LIPOR II is an essential infrastructure for the sustainable management of urban waste in the Porto Metropolitan Area. Opened in 2000, it serves eight municipalities - Espinho, Gondomar, Maia, Matosinhos, Porto, Póvoa de Varzim, Valongo and Vila do Conde. The complex comprises two main units: the Energy Recovery Plant and the landfill, which has a Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) with tertiary treatment (ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis). The plant treats around 1,100 tonnes of non-recyclable waste a day and transforms it into electricity. With two treatment lines, it has an annual capacity of 400,000 tonnes and provides the electricity grid with around 165,000MWh per year, enough energy to supply a population equivalent to 150,000 inhabitants. The Landfill receives the by-products of incineration, such as slag and treated ash, while the Wastewater Treatment Plant ensures the proper treatment of wastewater. It also maintains an ongoing environmental, psychosocial and public health monitoring programme, reinforcing its strategic role in building a more sustainable future for the municipalities it serves. - **IMPORTANT** Accessible exclusively by car

16 Former Matosinhos Refinery Matosinhos Infraestruturas Foster Wheeler Corporation e Companhia Portuguesa de Petróleos 1966 Sat 10h, 11h30, 16h + Sun 10h, 11h30, 14h30, 16h, Ivo Félix (Galp) / Sat 14h30, Architect Inês Moreira >> IMPORTANT: Visitor identification required (name and ID), including children, The guided tours will take place by bus, it is recommended that you arrive at least 30 minutes before the tour time, subject to registration on site, subject to availability, on a first-come, first-served basis. On 5 and 6 July, the former Galp refinery in Matosinhos will open its doors to the community, as part of the 10th edition of Open House Porto. This infrastructure, whose building has Estado Novo architectural features, was built in the late 1960s and officially opened in 1970. In an industrial city of around 240 hectares, several specialised engineering factories ensured oil refining and the supply of essential raw materials to the country for more than half a century. These guided tours offer the opportunity to get to know the refinery from the inside, now decommissioned and with demolition work underway. Galp will promote the regeneration of this vast area of Matosinhos in close liaison with the Matosinhos City Council, the CCDR-N and other local and national organisations with a view to building a new ecosystem dedicated to innovation, technology and the energies of the future. This is a legacy that the company aims to leave to the region and the country, in what it hopes will be the largest and most significant urban regeneration project in Portugal in the coming decades.

19 Titan from the Port of Leixões Matosinhos Infraestruturas Officines de Fives-Lille séc. XIX / 2021 WARNING: Access to Titan subject to favourable weather conditions, Titan not accessible to people with reduced mobility. The Titan is a large, century-old iron crane, unique in the world, which had the capacity to lift 50 tonnes of stone and which enabled the construction of what is currently one of the largest ports on the Iberian Peninsula and the largest artificial port in the country, a major driver of the local and national economy. In 2023, the Port of Leixões received 2,400 cargo ships and exported to 184 countries. The Titan was restored in 2021 and is an essential part of the history and identity of the Port of Leixões, the city of Matosinhos and Portugal's industrial heritage. - **WARNING** Access to Titan subject to favourable weather conditions, Titan not accessible to people with reduced mobility.

30 Ouro's Ejector Porto Infraestruturas Hughes & Lancaster 1904 Sat + Sun 10h, Engineer Pedro Lemos In Largo do Ouro there is an isolated volume that looks like a small kiosk or a sentry box. The volume, topped by a kind of crown, is the door to an underground room, designed to house a Shone expeller. The station, which is still in operation, is part of the sewerage project that Porto City Council began to draw up in 1896, based on the waste injection system patented at the end of 1870 by London contractors Hughes & Lancaster. With tiled walls and access from a spiral cast-iron staircase, the room is announced by the sentry box and an ‘ornamental column’ for ventilation. The simultaneous presence of these two architectural elements elsewhere in the city always hides a room like this one. (Joana Couceiro e Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)

40 Rainha D.ª Amélia Velodrome of MNSR Porto Infraestruturas Joaquim da Costa Sampaio / Fernando Távora 1795 / 2001 Sat 10h30, Paula Oliveira (Conservator at the Museum) / Sun 10h30, Architects Carlos Martins e Marta Rocha – Visit to the Museum Reserves Inaugurated in 1894, the Maria Amélia velodrome, of which there are still significant remains, was a response to the growing enthusiasm for cycling among Porto's elite at the end of the 19th century. Intended for racing these ‘crazy, fast machines’, with a track that allowed them to cover one kilometre in three laps, this was one of the city's first sports venues and also included two tennis courts. Opened in what was then a small forest and vegetable garden, given by King Carlos to the Associação Velo Club do Porto , the velodrome was developed at the back of the neoclassical Carrancas Palace, built in 1795 by the Morais e Castro family and which, acquired in 1861 by King Pedro V, became the official residence of the royal family when they travelled to Porto. Later, in 1940, it was converted into the Soares dos Reis National Museum. The name of the velodrome comes from the name of King Carlos I's wife: Queen Dona Amélia. (Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)

56 Nova Sintra Water Reservoir Porto Infraestruturas Compagnie Générale des Eaux e SMAS do Porto 1929 Sat + Sun 15h, Débora Silva (Águas e Energia do Porto) Bought in 1932 by the Municipality of Porto, the Nova Sintra farm gets the Reservoir in 1928 and the Central in 1929, matching up the woods and the romantic garden of the “Englishmen’s house” with the biggest infrastructure of water storage of the city, destined to duplicate the capacity of the Jovim/Santo Isidro conduct. The municipalisation of the water supply to each house in 1875 created a secret layer under the streets that we cross everyday, with conducts, valves, and others, this way no longer needing fountains and springs. Today with the project Porto Gravítico implemented by the Águas do Porto, E. M., has no use for most of the reservoirs, supplying and going along the city according to its topography. Today the storage capacity of the six reservoirs of the city is of 125.450 cubic meters, which corresponds to a reserve for more than two days. (Inês Moreira e João Paulo Rapagão, OHP’18)

68 São João Bridge Vila Nova de Gaia Infraestruturas Eng. Edgar Cardoso 1991 Sat 10h00, Prof. Filipe Magalhães (FEUP) / Sat 11h30, Engineer Moutinho Cardoso / Sat 14h30, Engineer Carrasquinha de Freitas reservas marcação pré-marcação The São João bridge was the first of the crossings between Porto and Gaia to be built during Portuguese democracy. This bridge was inaugurated in 1991 to replace the D. Maria Pia railway bridge (1877) which, due to load and speed limitations and the fact that it was single-track, could no longer effectively handle the heavy railway traffic in Porto. Engineer Edgar Cardoso was the author of this bridge, which took seven years to build (1984-1991) and used a sliding formwork construction system, which was an innovation at the time but has since become a standard system in world construction. The São João bridge is 1,140 metres long and is built as a continuous multiple portico of prestressed reinforced concrete, with side pillars and three spans: two side spans of 125 metres and a central span of 250 metres. In 1991 the size of the centre span set a world record for bridges of this type. *(Teresa Novais and Margarida Quintã, OHP'24)*

71 RTP Studios Vila Nova de Gaia Infraestruturas Rodrigues Lima (colab. Ramos da Fonseca e Jácome da Costa) / Fernando Lamas 1959 / 2007 Sat 11h00+13h00, Producer Hugo Correia / Sat 15h00, Producer Sandra Lopes / Sun 11h00, Host Hélder Reis There is no true freedom without information, and that has been the role of the RTP Porto Production Centre throughout its existence. What started out as a small regional RTP office (in 1959), essentially associated with a broadcasting antenna to cover the north of the country, ended up becoming a thriving and diversified content production centre, with a strong presence in the daily life of public service television in Portugal. Today, RTP Porto is one of the largest content production centres in the country, with around 300 employees, responsible for 40% of the information and entertainment production for the RTP group's television programme services (on the RTP1, RTP2, RTP3, RTP África and RTP Internacional channels) and radio (on the Antena 1, Antena 2 and Antena 3 stations). Examples are the RTP2 news programme and the Praça da Alegria programme, which began in 1995. *(Teresa Novais and Margarida Quintão, OHP'24)*

4 Marília House Maia Habitação - / Ventura+Partners Séc. XX / 2025 Mandatory use of shoe covers indoors, to be provided by the organisation. Located in Maia, Casa Marília is a single-family house set in a large plot of 5,556 m². This refurbishment and extension project is based on a building from the early 20th century - originally known as ‘Casa Brasileira Maria Odete’ - a unique construction in Portugal, marked by the strong influence of Brazilian architecture. Despite its advanced state of disrepair, the building had the status of a heritage site, imposing a significant challenge: reconciling the ption of its historical identity with the demands of contemporary housing. The intervention sought to balance the memory of the past with the comfort and functionality of the present, favouring large spaces for family gatherings and a strong connection with the surrounding garden. Casa Marília is now reborn as a modern and sophisticated residence, incorporating new features such as a garage, laundry room, indoor swimming pool, six bedrooms, large living rooms, kitchen, office and a basement with storage and wine cellar. A project that honours its history while looking to the future. (Ventura+Partners)

12 Residential Building - Circunvalação I Maia Habitação António Morgado 2023 Regular visits, without access to the interior of apartments Sat 14h30, 15h30, 16h30, Arq. António Morgado;Access to the interior of an apartment only during specialist visits, with compulsory use of shoe covers The Circunvalação I building occupies a previously empty plot on the urban front. In agreement with the municipal services, a new alignment was defined, providing for future volumetric standardisation up to the Estrada da Circunvalação. The structure is marked by a grid of balconies on the façades, creating a rhythm of voids and shadows. The ground floor, predominantly exterior, is fluid and visually permeable towards the garden. The top floor, set back, relates to the pre-existing buildings. The horizontality, reinforced by exposed concrete and shades of grey, adapts the scale to the surroundings. Windows that run along the inside of the walls intensify the connection to the outside. The building incorporates thermal control solutions which, in addition to plastic expressiveness, guarantee low energy consumption. Two vertival voids promote natural ventilation and internal connectivity. (Version adapted from the author's original text)

21 Residential Building in Rua Roberto Ivens Matosinhos Habitação Luís RIbeiro da Silva e Margarida Quintã (Ursa Arquitectura) 2024 Sat + Sun 11h, Architects Luís Ribeiro da Silva and Margarida Quintã The residential building on Rua Roberto Ivens, in Matosinhos, arose from the meeting of four families who came together to build their homes: two three-bedroom flats, a two-bedroom flat and a one-bedroom flat, all overlapping and with equivalent areas. The building's plot defines the orientation of the street frontage to the east and the street frontage to the west, indicating the organisation of the house's spaces: the bedroom areas face onto the street frontage, benefiting from greater silence and morning light, the social areas face onto Rua Roberto Ivens, benefiting from evening light. Hierarchically, the dwellings prioritise the maximisation of social areas over private ones. To this end, the floor plans are designed from back to front: the bedrooms parallel to the façade with the minimum satisfactory depth, the stairwell and lift with the minimum regulatory widths, the service bathrooms with the minimum reasonable width, the living rooms with the maximum possible depth. The living rooms thus result in generous spaces measuring approximately 11 metres by 5 metres facing the tops of the plane trees on Rua Roberto Ivens, where the living, dining and kitchen areas are juxtaposed. In an attempt to reconcile the integrity of these spaces with their enjoyment from the outside, the façades accommodate a system of sash windows that retract below the height of the parapet, allowing the rooms to be transformed into balconies - since balconies are, after all, nothing more than completely open rooms. **WARNING** Use of shoe cover is mandatory in all visits

34 Casa 61 - Bairro da Bouça Porto Habitação Álvaro Siza / Nuno Reis Pereira 1977 / 2006 / 2023 Sat + Sun, every 30 minutes, Architects Domiziana Roberi, João Maria Lopes e Nuno Reis Pereira House 61 belongs to the first phase of the Bouça housing estate, designed in the 1970s by Álvaro Siza as part of the SAAL process. Having undergone many alterations, the house has reached the present day with few traces of its first life. Since it wasn't possible to ‘repeat’ it, it had to be replaced or reproposed. Most of the (re)proposals had already been made in 2006, when the complex was finalised in its definitive relationship with the city. Three decades after the end of SAAL, the new typologies brought revisions: the materials were updated, the dimensions retouched and the use of spaces made more flexible. The decisions in the refurbishment of this house in 2023 are in the same spirit, borrowing some tiles or a sliding door. Certain replacements were made. However, we can't resist pointing out that we can still read the original typology, an ambitious exercise in modernity, a fresh delight from those years. (Nuno Reis Pereira)

35 Houses in Rua da Glória e Rua Sra. da Lapa Porto Habitação FMVS A decorrer Sat+Sun 10h e 16h30, Architect Filipe Madeira The urban morphology of Monte da Lapa, associated with its steep and rugged topography, added difficulty to the intervention request: the confrontation between two houses of the same typology on a narrow, deep plot that connected streets with a three-storey height difference. We proposed an adjustment to the typologies that emphasised the difference in height and character of the houses, and created outdoor spaces free of views. The house on the lower level (Sra. da Lapa), necessarily of reduced implantation, has only two floors and a single room that has a terrace to the west. The living room, now slightly elevated in relation to the street, compensates for its small size with an unexpected ceiling height and a generous window. The house on the higher level (Glória) establishes a familiar relationship with its neighbouring surroundings: a gable roof in Marseilles tiles with eaves, two openings per band and two panes of glass, the upper floor set back, when it exists. Inside, longitudinal lines of sight and natural light were favoured in all the rooms. In the garden, a magnolia tree. (FMVS)

37 Edifício Lino Porto Habitação Arménio Losa e Cassiano Barbosa / Carlos Maia e Marta Labastida 1953 / A decorrer Sat + Sun 11h30, 15h30, Architects Marta Labastida e Carlos Maia The building, popularly known as Lino Lamps Building, was projected between 1951 and 1953 by architects Arménio Losa and Cassiano Barbosa and was the commission of Sr. Custódio Lino – a reputed lamp maker whose factory was on the same street. Lino lamps are also closely connected to the Escola do Porto [Porto’s School] as they produced pieces for many of their architects. Two of the floors are a shop and showroom and the remaining four are housing – in the last floor there are two studios with a terrace, that were used as lodging for the German technicians that would travel to Porto for long periods of time to repair the factory’s equipment. The showroom was set on the semi-basement of the building, under a community terrace, opening up to the garden on the public space. Despite the small dimensions and the conditions of the fractions, Lino building clearly incorporates and expresses the modern, functional and constructive formal lexicon of architects Losa and Barbosa. (Joana Couceiro e Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)

38 Casa sobre o Douro Porto Habitação César Machado Moreira 2022 Sat 10h, 10h30 + Sun 10h, 10h30, 17h, 17h30, Architect Cesar Machado Moreira The site, located on the escarpment of Rua Sobre o Douro, is made up of four terraces, accessed by stairs from the street. Given the configuration of the land and the small size of the terraces, two separate volumes were created. On the first terrace, in a volume attached to the upper platform, a small studio was built for visitors, while the second volume was located on the third and fourth terraces, organised over 3 floors and connecting to a small existing building that was restored and extended. The volumetric fragmentation was intended to accompany the occupation that characterises the slopes of the River Douro. A small circular swimming pool was located on the middle platform, using part of the studio's roof. (César Machado Moreira)

39 Casa na Rua da Bandeirinha Porto Habitação António Portugal e Manuel Maria Reis 1999 Sat 10h, 16h, 17h + Sun 10h, 12h, 17h, Achitects. Anne Wermeille Mendonça, Isabel Sereno e Manuel Maria Reis / Sáb12h, Architect Teresa Novais There are streets that deserve to be seen from behind. Rua da Bandeirinha is one of them. Four architects, partners and friends, António Portugal and Anne Wermeille and José Maria Reis and Isabel Sereno, found a property too big for just one house, or even two. They therefore decided to add a shared office to the houses. The width of the building was divided into two halves, exactly symmetrical. Each house develops over several floors, always around a central body. Everything was designed with exemplary detail. Each floor has a function and the rooms have no doors. The two families share the marvellous garden, the continuation of the romantic garden of Virtudes: an unexpected platform with an inebriating view of Porto, the city and the river. (Paula Santos and Ivo Poças Martins, OHP'17)

51 Duas casas para S. Porto Habitação colectivoMel 2014 Sat+Sun 10h, 13h30, colectivoMEL When it comes to the field of rehabilitation of our built heritage, we should remember that it is not always necessary to demolish everything or maintain only the façade and build again its interior. In these houses what is proposed is a radically alternative approach where, with the exception of the new elements introduced with great precision, everything else is maintained: the wood structure, the plaster and wood work, but mainly the marks of the passing of time, the worn paint, woods and wallpaper. The visitors will be able to understand this ambiguity between complete rehabilitation or a surgical intervention. Even if it might seem simply like a nostalgic and romantic stance, rapidly one can refute the argument when we see that all this allows also considerable savings in construction costs. (Paula Santos e Ivo Poças Martins, OHP’17)

57 variations in a box Porto Habitação fala A decorrer Sat + Sun, each 30 minutes, fala The neighborhood combines residential and industrial buildings. A new transport hub has sprung up nearby. The residential building was designed within the volume of the old factory, respecting the imposed limits. The tension between domesticity and industrial scale guides the project. The building measures 10x39x8m, with three open façades. It is divided into almost similar apartments, facing a garden to the south. The repetition is broken up by spatial variations: high ceilings, curves, rotations, imperfections. Simple materials clad the façades. To the south, there are industrial allusions, the top façades are abstract. From the highway, you can see a cat: domestic, but wild. (fala)

59 Bloco de Costa Cabral Porto Habitação Viana de Lima / Adoff Arquitetos 1955 / 2018 Sat, each 45 minutes, Arq. António Fundo Ferreira This multi-family housing building shows the importance that the modern revisionist movement continues to give to new ways of inhabiting: functional kitchen, with a wall integrated dish rack, in direct connection with the meal area displayed in continuity with the sitting area, bedrooms with abundant light from horizontal windows, terraces and balconies that prolong the reading of the inside space to the outside. From the point of view of urbanism, even though implanted parallel to the street, through an indentation the block becomes autonomous to it, and is “completed” by the nearby gables with the same brick coating of the building. The ground floor is distinct from the upper floors (forcing a complex deviation in the structure and infra-structures of the building) and it shows the pillars-columns, in the style of modern pilotis. It is therefore a moderate modern building, without the radicalism known of its European heroic counterpart. In that resides today its exemplary character. Viana de Lima, author of the building and participant of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM) was, himself, one of the inhabitants of this modern machine for living. (Joana Couceiro e Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)

61 Afurada House Vila Nova de Gaia Habitação merooficina 2022 1 per hour, Architects Catarina Ribeiro and Vitório Leite (merooficina) Located in a residential area of Afurada, the house had been uninhabited for some years and the degradation caused by the passage of time disturbed the clear reading of the spaces that made it up. The improvised divisions, which informally divided the house into two dwellings, concealed the original and frank succession of communicating spaces, which may have served as the basis for its original floor plan. Through demolition and occasional constructions that didn't interfere with the original layout, the reconstruction endeavoured to restore these axes and reinvent the daily life that inhabits its spaces. The most dilapidated area of the north-facing façade was altered the most: it was here that the new entrance door, the new kitchen and, in an area that was once outside, the master bedroom were installed. Above this room, the weak tile roof that had been built in the meantime was replaced by a terrace that once again provides an outdoor space for the house. *(merooficina)*

65 House in Calçada da Serra Vila Nova de Gaia Habitação - / Cannatà & Fernandes Arquitectos - / 2019 Each 30 min, Arq. Michele Cannatà For the design of this house, the high heritage value of the landscape relationship with the historic city centre of Porto was the focus of the project's formalisation from the outset. The modest planimetric dimensions and strong regulatory constraints did not discourage a spatial investigation based on the articulation of the different levels, constructive simplification and the accentuation of transparency between interior and exterior. Fátima Fernandes and Michele Cannatà show us floors with different heights and shapes that project into the extraordinary landscape of the city's historic centre and the final stretch of the urban part of the River Douro. *(Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)*

72 Calçada House Vila Nova de Gaia Habitação Ren Ito 2020 Sat 10h00 + Sun 14h00, Archiitect Ren Ito Located in Vilar do Paraíso, Casa da Calçada dates back to the 18th century and is set in an extensive 5000m2 area. The different existing buildings, scattered around the property, have been renovated and a new residence and guest house have been created. The main house, with its cross-shaped plan, has common areas on the ground floor, such as the living room, office, entertainment area and kitchen, while the private areas, such as bedrooms and bathrooms, occupy the second floor. The annex building houses the laundry, wine cellar, wine shop, bedrooms and gym. The guest house, also on two floors, has a living room, dining room and kitchen on the ground floor, and a bedroom and bathroom on the second floor. The annex building has a changing room for the pool, a bathroom and storage. Finally, an outdoor kitchen and a swimming pool are attached to the guest house

73 4 houses in Aguda Vila Nova de Gaia Habitação Manuel Correia Fernandes 1978 Sat 15h00+16h00, Architect Manuel Correia Fernandes / Sat 17h00, Architect Carlos Machado e Moura In the 1970s, Manuel Correia Fernandes designed four holiday homes in front of the see for four friends. The buildings, which are necessarily economical, are organised around the living room - an open, taller space that brings together various functions, integrating the stairs/circulations to the (necessarily small) bedrooms and the natural relationship with the garden. A single roof seeks to unify the houses and, at the same time, compose the front elevation to the sea. After almost 50 years, it's also important to read the action of time on the architectures, and how each house has undergone different processes of erosion or treatment - ption, alteration or near abandonment. But there is, in spite of everything, an overall design that remains... which good architecture guarantees. *(Joana Couceiro and Nuno Valentim, OHP'19)*

2 Quinta da Gruta Environmental Education School Maia Equipamentos João Álvaro Rocha 2008 Sat 10am, Architect Alberto Vieira / Sun 10am, Architect Carla Garrido At the beginning of the 20th century, a farm was established featuring gardens and a manor house influenced by 19th-century Brazilian architecture, already marked by the emergence of Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles. Today, this site is home to the Quinta da Gruta Municipal Education and Environmental Awareness Complex, dedicated to fostering ecological awareness and learning through direct contact with nature. Open to the community, the complex provides a space for leisure and education, where environmental ption and advocacy are central to its educational initiatives. The Quinta da Gruta Environmental Education School is conceived as a complementary structure — not intended to rival the manor house, but rather to integrate with it in a discreet and respectful manner. Both its form and function reflect a relationship of harmony and interdependence with the historic building, aligned with the simplicity of rural architectural tradition.

6 Quinta dos Cónegos Maia Equipamentos - / António Pinto Leite e Pais de Figueiredo Séc. XVIII / 1996 Free visits limited to the garden areas Sat 17h + Sun 16h, Mário Aguiar (Tourism Technician C.M.Maia) / Sun 10h, Historian José Maia Marques Quinta dos Cónegos, in Maia, expresses the spirit of the 18th century and the influence of the Baroque. An appeal to construction that marvels, that transforms nature into an aesthetic appeal, that moulds taste to the period. The earliest recorded building dates back to the 17th century, known at the time as Quinta de Barreiros. Some authors place the current building between 1727 and 1737 (18th century), in the purest Baroque style and strongly influenced by the Nasoni school. It is a space of memory, of continuous renovation without losing the thread of time, from the baroque to the gardens, from water to stone, from the white of the walls to the green of nature. In the early 1990s, Quinta dos Cónegos was completely renovated in accordance with the architectural and decoration project by António Pinto Leite, helped by the dedicated collaboration of Pais de Figueiredo and Santos Farinha. (Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)

7 Gramaxo Foundation Maia Equipamentos Álvaro Siza 2021 Sat. 11 a.m. / Sun. 4 p.m., regular visits in English Sun 11am, Architect António Choupina The Gramaxo Foundation, whose activity aims to promote local arts and culture, has its new building in the 17th century Quinta da Boavista housing and agricultural complex. Designed to display the Gramaxo family collection, this project organises several rooms for permanent and temporary exhibitions, as well as a multipurpose room that can be used as an auditorium. Seeking to evoke the memory of the pre-existing building, the new construction occupies the existing built areas, although it takes on a different shape and volume. Also of note in this reference to memory is the projection of a pergola articulated with the temporary exhibition room and the auditorium. (Magda Seifert and Pedro Baía, OHP'23)

8 João Álvaro Rocha Documentation Centre Maia Equipamentos Eduardo Souto de Moura e João Álvaro Rocha 2001 1 per hour, Architects Conceição Melo and Cristina Emília Silva;Between 1pm and 3pm there are no visits Not far from the new centre of Maia, Eduardo Souto Moura designed this collective housing building that houses the Centre, which has flats and commercial spaces on the ground floor. The rectangular block has two central nuclei for vertical circulation and infrastructures, allowing for a flexible layout of the rest of the floor area. From the outside, the entire prism is covered with aluminium shutters, thus obtaining different “compositions”: the building can look like a mute, abstract box on which the sun shines, or come to life when some of the windows are opened. The east façade includes the two entrances to the flats, two commercial spaces, the condominium room and access to the garage, while the west façade has only one access to a commercial space. The ground floor is where João Álvaro Rocha set up his office and today we find his extraordinary collection of work. (Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)

9 Lidador Tower Maia Equipamentos António Machado 2001 Sat 10am + Sun 12pm, Mário Aguiar (C.M. Maia Tourism Technician) / Sun 11am, António Silva Tiago (C.M. Maia Mayor) Maia's Municipal Services Tower, Torre Lidador, is an emblematic building of the municipality and its dynamism, representing the start of a new cycle of progress and development. With the primary objective of installing municipal services, the Tower is a decisive milestone in a process of sustainable development that is unrivalled in our country. The Lidador Tower is a landmark in the city, 92 metres high, and at the time it was built it was the 5th tallest building in the country and the tallest outside the city of Lisbon, visible from any of the ten parishes in the municipality. The Tower represents a benchmark, not just geographically, but one that illustrates development, capacity for work and entrepreneurial spirit. It represents the transparency and openness of Local Government, the accessibility of Maia Town Hall to its citizens. It is an open and transparent workspace, inaugurated on 9 July 2001. (Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)

10 Águas Santas Civic Centre Maia Equipamentos Paulo Tedim / Luís Miguel Gomes 2012 The headquarters of the Eixo Atlántico del Noroeste Peninsular will not be included in the visits Sat 10am, 3pm, 5pm, Miguel dos Santos (Chairman of the Parish Council) The Águas Santas Civic Centre plays a central role in the organisation and provision of public services to the community, having been conceived as a space for civic and institutional convergence. The services of the Águas Santas Parish Council are centralised in this building, providing direct assistance to citizens in areas such as local administration, social support and community dynamism. It also houses the Citizen Space, the Senior University, a branch of the Municipalised Water and Sanitation Services (SMAS), the Local Information Service Office (GAIL) and the Manuel Correia Auditorium. This building articulates the various uses in an exemplary way, both in its interior relationship and in the relationship between the interior and the exterior, also designed for the enjoyment of the community. The Civic Centre also stands out for its supra-municipal vocation, as it houses the headquarters of the Eixo Atlântico do Noroeste Peninsular - a cross-border cooperation entity that promotes sustainable development and territorial integration between cities in the north of Portugal and Galicia.

11 Pedrouços Parish Council Maia Equipamentos - / Alfredo Ascensão e Paulo Henriques - / 2007 Sat 10am, 3pm, 4pm and Sun 10am, Isabel Carvalho (Chairman of the Parish Council) / Sat 5pm Architect Alfredo Ascensão Based on an old Mayan house, the project has developed into a carefully designed contemporary extension, establishing itself as a centre for community life. More than an administrative space, it houses facilities such as an auditorium, library and exhibition room, promoting civic participation, culture and proximity. The articulation between the pre-existence and the new design is done with balance and respect for the place. The choice of materials and careful construction result in an architecture that is simultaneously silent, expressive and identifiable. This building is thus a public space in the fullest sense, affirming architecture as an essential element of urban qualification.

14 Leça do Balio Monastery and Open Sculpture Matosinhos Equipamentos - / - / Álvaro Siza séc. X / séc. XIV / 2024 Sat 11h, Fundação Livraria Lello Guides / Sun 16h, Architect António Choupina The Monastery of Leça do Balio was acquired by the Lionesa Group in 2016, and Architect Siza Vieira and Architect Sidónio Pardal were asked to design a future for the Monastery that would help reactivate this important heritage of pioneering spirit and humanism, with its unavoidable connection to the Way of St James. The work began in 2020 and was completed in June 2024. The project to restore, enhance and publicise the Monastery of Leça do Balio includes not only the structural rehabilitation of a heritage site of high historical, cultural and architectural value, in order to preserve a space that has been considered a national monument since 1910, but also the creation of a new building - Siza's Open Sculpture. This sculpture, a 20x20 metre wide white concrete structure also designed by the architect Siza Vieira, seeks to underline and give visibility to the importance that the Monastery of Leça do Balio has had over the years in supporting pilgrims on the Portuguese Way to Santiago: a space for introspection, with an outdoor patio and a more reserved covered area, this is an ecumenical space where, in the Gothic tradition and pioneering spirit of Leça do Balio, light plays an important role throughout the day. *(Fundação Livraria Lello)*

17 Tidal Swimming Pool Matosinhos Equipamentos Álvaro Siza 1966 / 2021 Sat 17h, Architect Teresa Cunha Ferreira / Sat 18h, Architect José Fernando Gonçalves / Sun 11h, Architect Luís Urbano Initially marked by the existence of a lobster vivarium, this place maintains a dialogue between natural elements and artificial information. The several straight parallel walls in reinforced concrete, that are “cut” at the bar area by a plan that points to the crane or “titan”, contrast with the nature of rocks and the sand. So then a path appears, that is slow and that alternates between being either parallel to being perpendicular to the sea, descending, partially buried to free up the view of the horizon to whoever is circulating in the road. The high walls postpone the discovery of the sea, giving access to cloakrooms, showers and toilets, bar and also the water treatment station that belongs to the sea. The walls in reinforced concrete support the wooden and copper roof where the partitions are suspended. If we go down and peek, we can grasp the continuous pavement, free as the sea. *(Inês Moreira and João Paulo Rapagão, OHP’18)* **WARNING** Use of swimming pools not included (subject to the applicable rate)

18 Leixões Port Cruise Terminal Matosinhos Equipamentos Luís Pedro Silva 2014 Sat 13h, 14h, 16h-20h, Cruise Terminal Guides / Sat 15h, Architect Luís Pedro Silva / Sun 10h-17h, Cruise Terminal Guides The Leixões Cruise Terminal was created as part of the Strategic Port Development Plan in 2004. The building is a landmark on the south quay of the Port of Leixões, which is positioned as a gateway to the northern region. The new quay was inaugurated in April 2011 and is now 340 metres long, enabling it to accommodate large cruise ships, in line with the current development of the world's shipowners in the construction of these vessels. In 2023, the terminal received 116 cruise ships and 149,000 passengers, having doubled its activity in just over a decade. This building is a multifunctional facility because, as well as housing the Leixões Cruise Terminal, it also houses two research institutions: the Interdisciplinary Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR) and the Science and Technology Park of the Sea, both of the University of Porto. CIIMAR is a leading research and advanced training institution working at the frontier of ocean knowledge and innovation. With 661 employees of 32 nationalities, it runs an extensive outreach programme aimed at all sectors of society. The habitable roof of the Leixões Cruise Terminal is an audience for the most extraordinary spectacle: the view of the ocean. As well as guided tours on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, we invite you to watch the sunset from the roof of this building on Saturday, between 7pm and 9pm.

20 Roberto Ivens House Matosinhos Equipamentos Álvaro Siza 1961 / 2009 / 2022 Sat 11h, Architect Pedro Pimentel / Sat 14h30, Architect José Salgado / Sun 11h, 15h, Architect Mariana Bernardes In the central mesh of Matosinhos we can still find many examples of Porto’s bourgeois houses, or variations, built between the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The Roberto Ivens house is one of those houses – with the particularity of having been remodelled by Siza Vieira himself to be the house of his parents, in 1961. In 2009, it is him once again that designs the building’s reconversion into the first headquarters of Casa da Arquitectura. It’s another extraordinary exercise of “transformation in continuity” – an idea that architect Fernando Távora frequently enunciated – where we recognize a new inner life overlapping the memory of a family house. The surprising natural way in which this process is designed is latent – in everything. *(Joana Couceiro and Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)*

22 Four Houses - D'Abreu Neto House Matosinhos Equipamentos Álvaro Siza 1957 / 2024 Sat 15h, 16h, Architect Inês Ruas / Sat 20h + Sun 15h00, Architect Sara Nunes Siza Vieira’s first work (still far from the architectural expression of what would be considered his masterworks), the group of four houses is an essay on a revision of modernity that mixes the Inquiry on Popular Architecture (filtered by Távora), Ronchamp by Le Corbusier and his own, as always, Alvar Aalto. Integrated in this group, the house of his first client predicted a path that forced the duplication of stairs that, even though decreased free space, they increased the living possibilities of the house. In this, the project is complex and contradictory, anticipating 1966 Venturi’s homonym book. The kitchen at Neto’s House seems to have been shaped in clay colour pastilles with Siza’s own hands, still impressed with his discovery of the organic expression of Gaudi’s architecture. The sculptural presence of the chimney reminds us of Christmas, Easter and normal days of that house. *(Joana Couceiro and Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)* **WARNING** Use of shoe covers is mandatory in all visits

23 Matosinhos Memory Museum - Trevões Palace Matosinhos Equipamentos António Alves da Silva / Eng. Manuel Lopes de Amorim / Ana Crista 1913 / 1944 / 2017 Sat 10h, Museologist Luís Soares / Sun 16h, Archaeologist José Varela Based in the emblematic building of the old Town Hall, MuMMa is a space dedicated to preserving and celebrating the collective identity of Matosinhos. Inaugurated in 2023, the museum brings together testimonies, objects and narratives that span the history of the municipality, from the fishing tradition to industrialisation and contemporary urban culture. Its museography invites interaction and dialogue between generations, crossing past and present. As part of Open House Porto 2025, MuMMa is opening its doors to visitors to showcase not only its exhibition content, but also the rehabilitated building itself, where historic architecture and contemporary intervention meet. An invitation to discover the living memory of a city in constant transformation.

24 Casa da Arquitectura Matosinhos Equipamentos Eng. António da Silva / Guilherme Machado Vaz 1901 / 2017 Sat 15h, Architect Marco Ginoulhiac (Exhibition - Galeria da Casa) / Sat + Sun 16h, Architect José Fonseca (Archive CA) / Sat 17h, Architect Ana Neiva and Jorge Figueira (Exhibition - Nave Expsoitiva) / Sun 15h00, Architect Carla Barros / Sun 17h, Architect Guilherme Machado Vaz >> Visits to the Archive have a maximum capacity of 15 people >> IMPORTANT: Visits are not pre-booked but passes are distributed 30 minutes before each visit. Casa da Arquitectura - Centro Português de Arquitectura is one of the most important institutions in Portugal dedicated to the theme of Architecture, promoting exhibitions, preserving collections, research and disseminating the social and cultural relevance of architecture to different audiences. Based in Matosinhos, just a few metres from the beach, since 2017 the Portuguese Architecture Centre has occupied the former Real Vinícola block - a late 19th century heritage site, restored to a design by architect Guilherme Machado Vaz - which covers an area of around 5,000 m² and includes the Exhibition Nave, the House Gallery, the Luis Ferreira Alves and Álvaro Siza spaces, the Archive, the House Shop and support and service areas. It is currently an unavoidable reference in the architectural, cultural and tourist panorama, and is an award-winning and recognised example of the rehabilitation of industrial heritage.

25 Live Museum Conservas Pinhais Matosinhos Equipamentos Augusto Coelho Pereira de Araújo / ACS Architects 1923 / 2021 Sat + Sun 09h30, 10h30, 11h30, 14h00, 15h00, 16h00, Museum guides Conservas Pinhais & C.ª Lda., founded in 1920, occupies a building dating from 1923 and enlarged in 1945 as part of Licínio Guimarães' urbanisation plan for Areal do Prado. This space preserves the traditional and artisanal production of tinned fish - with special emphasis on sardines - while at the same time carefully conserving the building and the company's production legacy, remaining as faithful as possible to the original. The manual preparation of ingredients, such as bay leaves, and the artisanal production of tomato pulp ensure the authenticity, quality and longevity of Pinhais products. The towers on the corners of the building reveal influences from English industrial architecture, while the main atrium, dominated by a spiral staircase, conveys a material nobility that leads to the office, where the atmosphere remains anchored in the past. Traditions are also maintained, such as the ringing of the bell, which marks the rhythm of the working day, under the protective gaze of Our Lady of Fatima. Since 2021, with the creation of the Museu Vivo Conservas Pinhais Factory Tour, it has been possible to take guided tours of the historic building, learning about the history of the brand and all the stages of artisanal canning production, culminating in a product tasting. This immersive tour invites you to discover the know-how, values and living memory of one of Portugal's most emblematic canneries.

26 Efanor School - Pole II Matosinhos Equipamentos Paula Santos 2018 Sat 11h, Architect Paula Santos / Sat 15h, Architect José Bártolo Pole II of Colégio Efanor, designed by Paula Santos Arquitectura to accommodate around 700 students, is built on a plot of around 13,000m² and is an outstanding example of how architecture can serve education with sensitivity and rigour. The main building, orientated east-west, has three floors, adapting to the morphology of the site with a curved façade that softens the transition between the different volumes. At the south-east end of the campus, the sports complex stands out, comprising a gymnastics pavilion, a 25-metre swimming pool and dance studios. The pavilion, built in a metal structure and covered in polycarbonate, allows for visual permeability and diffused light, suitable for sports practice. The swimming pool and dance school, on the other hand, are made of exposed concrete and offer more introspective and light-controlled spaces, suited to the activities they host. This ensemble shows a harmonious integration between function, form and materiality, providing environments that stimulate the physical and intellectual development of the students.

27 S. João Baptista da Foz Fort Porto Equipamentos Francesco de Cremona Séc. XVI-XVIII Sat 10h, Maria José Távora / Sun 10h, geographers José Alberto Rio Fernandes e Jorge Ricardo Pinto (with tour in Foz) This fort hides in its interior what is left of the renaissance palace and the abbey church that Dom Miguel da Silva, Bishop of Viseu, built there in the first half of the 16th century to be his home and place of worship. In truth, these two architectural elements are an integral part of a wider set that Dom Miguel da Silva planned and had projected through an Italian architect Francesco de Cremona (that, certainly, he brought with him from Rome) and that forever marked the configuration of that place that they both founded. In the second half of the 16th century, Dom Miguel da Silva’s palace was integrated in the fort erected by the court that, in its interior, hides this History. The tiles of the church’s nave were taken out and the new one was built from the walls of the pre-existing church, in other words, the church exists today in its absence, open sky, converted in an inner patio of the fortress. (Joana Couceiro e Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)

28 Porto Ballet School Porto Equipamentos Francisco Vieira de Campos 2022 Sat 10h, Architect Francisco Vieira de Campos / Dom 11h, Teacher Cuca Anacoreta The new building of the Porto Ballet School is the result of a solid desire and initiative by a dancer who is now a teacher, to reconcile dance teaching with a space that matches this artistic expression. The project, designed by Francisco Vieira de Campos, is absolutely designed for dance, but it is obliged to fulfil the new demands of an articulated education that is now a possible choice and, fortunately, within the reach of young dancers. It is a space that seeks to integrate with the city and the surrounding nature, with large windows facing outwards, lots of light and arches that pursue the perfection of movement. In fact, this building will itself draw attention to the way in which quality-designed space stimulates happiness and inspires, as the history of Ballet in Portugal is intertwined with the history of building a democratic country. (Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)

29 The Álvaro Siza Wing of the Serralves Museum Porto Equipamentos Álvaro Siza 2023 Sat. 10h, 10h30, 11h, 11h30 + Sun 15h, 15h30, 16h, 16h30, 17h, 17h30, Serralves Educators * Sat. 11h, Extra visit to Casa de Serralves, Architect Adriana Soares. The new wing of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art opened to the public in October 2023, and was named the Álvaro Siza Wing in honour of its famous author. At Serralves, Álvaro Siza designed the Museum of Contemporary Art, in 1999, the Manoel de Oliveira Cinema House, in 2019, the Gardeners' House, in 2021, he was responsible for the restoration of the Serralves House, in 2021, and he designed the Museum's new extension, in 2023. The new wing has three floors and around 4,000m2 of construction, which represents an increase in the exhibition area of 40 per cent and an increase in the archive area of 75 per cent. This extension is indeed timely, as the museum will be visited by more than one million one hundred thousand people in 2023, compared to 80 thousand visitors in 1999. (Teresa Novais e Margarida Quintã, OHP’24)

31 Porto University Stadium Porto Equipamentos CREA 2024 Sat 10h+11h, CREA The project to renovate the CDUP's grandstand and headquarters, promoted by the University of Porto, is part of the context of the University Stadium, located in the heart of the Campo Alegre estate and inaugurated in 1953. The existing grandstand building, of rationalist inspiration reflected in the elevation of the access road, is laid out in strict symmetry and with a composition defined by a metric of pillars that converge in the negative of the porticoed entrance - a loggia over the street that marks the passage to the interior of the stadium, highlighting the low reliefs chiselled in a granite mural with motifs that refer to the imagery of the mythology of classical antiquity. At the same time as the structural refurbishment, the interior space was remodelled to include the support areas for the playing fields. On the longitudinal alignment of the existing grandstand are the two new buildings that make up the complex, which absorb the programme of the CDUP headquarters and support for university students, which are contaminated by the composition of the grandstand, reinterpreted and freed from symmetry, in a more fluid and dynamic register. (CREA)

32 Casa Marta Ortigão Sampaio - Museu da Cidade Porto Equipamentos José Carlos Loureiro 1957 Sat 15h30, Susana Lourenço Marques (curator of the temporary exhibition) A modernist building from 1958, designed by José Carlos Loureiro, the Marta Ortigão Sampaio House opened to the public in 1996, following a donation to the municipality in 1978. Marta Ortigão Sampaio (1897-1978), the daughter of Estela de Souza and Vasco Ortigão Sampaio, a famous collector from Porto, was the maternal niece of the painters Aurélia de Souza and Sofia de Souza and was born into a privileged context of contact with artistic practice. The House-Museum evokes the atmosphere that surrounded the life of this Porto bourgeois family, presenting collections of paintings, jewellery, a library specialising in art, pieces of furniture of French, English and Indo-Portuguese influence and other decorative arts pieces. A highlight is the collection of jewellery for personal use, with nearly three hundred pieces from the late 17th to the 20th century. In the garden you can see carved stones that belonged to the vanished monastery of S. Bento de Avé-Maria and a small lake surrounded by various botanical species, especially magnolias and an Atlas cedar. (Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)

41 Ferreira da Silva Laboratory of MHNC-UP Porto Equipamentos Carlos Amarante / António Portugal e Manuel Maria Reis 1927 / 2018 Sat 10h Architect Nelson Miranda / 16h Marisa Monteiro Ferreira da Silva Laboratory was opened to the public as a museum and cultural space in 2021. A landmark laboratory and educational facility in the history of chemistry in Portugal, a visit to the laboratory allows you to travel back to the 1930s and 1940s, not only because of the instruments and other equipment on display and used here at the time, but also because of the Art Deco aesthetic that characterises the space. The Ferreira da Silva Laboratory is also part of a project that, in partnership with the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra and the National Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Lisbon, allows you to travel 300 years in a space of 300 kilometres. (Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)

42 Reitoria Universidade do Porto Porto Equipamentos Carlos Amarante / António Portugal e Manuel Maria Reis Séc. XVIII / 2019 Sat 10h Susana Barros / 11h Architect Rui Ramos / 16h Professor Hugo Barreira There are buildings that fuse themselves with their names… or there are institutions that get mixed up with their buildings. This happens with the University of Porto [UP] – for many residents of Porto (but not only) to speak of the “University” is to refer to its historical building on Leões Square. The history of this construction (1803) is very rich, full of events, interventions, programs and even catastrophes. And its interior reveals this process, keeping extraordinary surprises – like the library of the “Fundo Antigo” [Old Fund], the Noble Hall, the Patios or the Ferreira da Silva Laboratory recently rebuilt. The several invited specialists for the guided tours will tell us what’s at stake: not only about the story and architectural heritage but also about the exceptional collections and objects kept here. Today, the building houses the UP Rectory and the Natural History and Science Museum (central hub undergoing a process of installing articulated with the Biodiversity Gallery and the Botanical Garden of Porto). (Joana Couceiro and Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)

45 Centro Português de Fotografia (Former Cadeia da Relação) Porto Equipamentos Eugénio dos Santos / Humberto Vieira e Eduardo Souto de Moura Séc. XVIII / 2001 Designed by Eugénio dos Santos, the military engineer and architect responsible for the Pombaline reconstruction of Lisbon's city centre, the building of the Antiga Cadeia e Tribunal da Relação do Porto (Old Prison and Court of Appeal of Porto) is a unique example of 18th century Portuguese civil architecture and contains some of the city's most important memories. Fully preserved in structural terms, it is one of the few buildings of this type still standing in Europe and is possibly the most paradigmatic prison building in the country. Erected as part of the urban renewal promoted by governor-general João de Almada e Melo, it was probably Porto's first great civil building, reflecting in a remarkable way, even in European terms, its status as a bulwark of the exercise of state power, evident from the outset in its monumental solidity and the decorative programme of the courthouse, made up of a symbolic ensemble evocative of the principles of the old regime. Today, after its restoration between 1987 and 2000, as a result of the latest extraordinary intervention by architects Humberto Vieira and Eduardo Souto Moura, the monument retains the memory and evocative power of its original surroundings, while at the same time housing the contemporaneity of an exemplary restoration and the Portuguese Photography Centre, which the general public can now enjoy with quality. (Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)

47 Museu de Arte Sacra e Arqueologia / Igreja S. Lourenço Porto Equipamentos Silvestre Jorge 1573 Sat 11h30, Architect Pedro Leão Neto In the highest part of the city and magnificently placed at the Morro da Sé, this beautiful Jesuit church, Mannerist, built in the 16th Century, lives with a series of other things behind its grand façade: Sacred Art Museum and Maior Seminar of the Sé of Porto. The Museum has a modern intervention by architect Luís Cunha, and it contains beautiful pieces of religious art. The cells of the Convent, today rooms of seminarians, one after the other through the great corridor that interweaves and flows into mind-blowing balconies over the river. The visitors can move around these successive spaces. (Paula Santos e Ivo Poças Martins, OHP’17)

48 Culturgest / Caixa Geral de Depósitos Porto Equipamentos Porfírio Pardal Monteiro 1931 Sat 14h+16h, Architect Domingos Tavares Greatest work of the “Lisbon architect” outside the capital, this impressive building in the Aliados Avenue stands out from its neighbours by its horizontality and classic gravity of its volume. The classic and institutional appearance of the exterior, contrasts with the art deco environment of the octagonal central hall and its double height. Apart from the spaces of Culturgest that since 2002 promotes cultural activities, this visit includes the safes. (Jorge Figueira, Carlos Machado e Moura, OHP’16)

49 Câmara Municipal do Porto Porto Equipamentos António Correia da Silva / Carlos Ramos 1917 / 1957 Sat 10h, Councilman Pedro Baganha It’s the home of the local administration of the municipality, which means, the house that represents every inhabitant of the city, a symbolic building that occupies a featured place in the north top of the Aliados Avenue. This implantation is the result of a long process of urban expansion made by English architect Barry Parker. The plan for the new civic centre, approved in 1916, predicted the demolition of the area that defines today the wide avenue, including the building which before held the city hall and that defined the D. Pedro Square, today’s Liberdade Square. This square opens up today to the grand scale axis that culminates, at the end, with the new building projected by António Carreia da Silva. The compact volume with a tower as axis (started in the 1920s and concluded, years later, by Carlos Ramos), only in 1957 houses the city hall services, meanwhile transferred to the Episcopal building (see nº43). Even though the elevation only reveals the existence of three floors (a ground floor, a noble floor and an attic) the volume develops in six floors and a basement, there are unexpected spaces when you go into the surprising interior of the building. (Joana Couceiro e Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)

50 Palácio do Bolhão Porto Equipamentos - / José Gigante, João Gomes e Manuel Fernando Santos 1844 / 2015 Sat+Sun 11h, Rosa Bessa / Sat 15h, Architect Fernando Santos / Sat + Sun 16h, Tomás Gomes / Sun 10h, Architect João Gomes Built under the orders of António de Guimarães, Count of Bolhão, and the stage of sumptuous parties and balls of the Porto elite of the second half of the 19th Century, the Palace is characterized by an eclectic architecture and profuse indoor decoration, with marble, plaster, painting and woodwork. Public Interest Monument since 2010, this building was rehabilitated and expanded, housing today the school and theatre company of the Academia Contemporânea do Espetáculo [Academy of Contemporary Entertainment]. Visit the rooms of the Palace described by Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco and the new auditorium. (Jorge Figueira, Carlos Machado e Moura, OHP’16)

52 Alexandre Herculano School Porto Equipamentos José Marques da Silva / Alexandre Alves Costa, SergioFernandez e Miguel Ribeiro 1934 / 2023 Sun 11h, Architects Alexandre Alves Costa, Sergio Fernandez e Miguel Ribeiro The construction of new high schools in the transition between the 19th and 20th centuries was marked by a desire to boost scientific teaching and respond to the demands of modern education. The then Liceu Central Alexandre Herculano marked an intention to consolidate the expansion of the city in the direction of the then new 19th century Praça da Boavista. Its recent refurbishment honours its past. Construction of the building began in 1916 and work continued until the 30s. Designed by the architect José Marques da Silva, a key figure in modern architecture in Porto, the building offered a series of spaces that, at the time, were unusual in this programme: the large corridors and windows, auditorium, gymnasium and swimming pool made this school an essential reference point. Among many other improvements, the swimming pool was replaced by changing rooms, the canteen was relocated (with its own access) and the gymnasium and auditorium were refurbished. The main façade, which housed the directorates, amphitheatres, laboratories, the Natural History Museum and the administrative services, was given a perpendicular position to the four wings of classrooms. The first floor of the centre section of the main façade is now occupied by the library. It was classified as a Monument of Public Interest in 2011. (Atelier 15)

53 Museu Militar do Porto Porto Equipamentos - / Fernando Lanhas 1895 / 1980 Sat 10h e 14h + Sun 10h, Alexandra Anjos (museologist) / Dom 16h, Architect José Pedro Tenreiro This bourgeois building of the end of the 19th century built to be the family residence of D. Maria Coimbra, holds this museum today. It has been many different things, during the Spanish Civil War it was the home of Spanish nuns, later it was bought by the Portuguese state that transformed it in the PIDE headquarters (Portuguese political police) in Porto, a place for interrogations, imprisonment and torture, between the 1940s and the Carnation Revolution, in 1974. Right next to Porto’s first public cemetery, Prado do Repouso, after PIDE was occupied in 1977, the building became the military museum that opened in March 1980. The visit includes the access to the historical building and the exhibition pavilion, in the garden. (Inês Moreira e João Paulo Rapagão, OHP’18)

54 Colégio dos Salesianos Porto Equipamentos - / José Joaquim Mendes / - 1804 / 1903 / 2011 Sun, 1 per hour, visits by the school's students The building that stands on the granite massif of the Douro riverside slope is not only a landmark in the landscape, but also a testimony to the passage of time and the transformation of spaces. From its origins as a Diocesan Seminary, through the period of abandonment and destruction during the Siege of Porto, to its reconstruction to house a new educational mission, the building that houses the Colégio dos Salesianos continues to evolve, in a constant dynamic of heritage re-signification and urban integration, showing a unique relationship with the topography and morphology of the city. Opening this space to the public as part of Open House Porto will allow us to reflect on the dynamics of preserving and reinterpreting built heritage. The experience provided by the visit will enable a stratigraphic reading of the spaces, material elements and narratives that the building contains, promoting a critical look at the permanence and mutation of architecture in the contemporary urban context. (Colégio dos Salesianos)

55 Prado do Repouso Cemetery Porto Equipamentos 1839 Sat 19h, Architect Pedro Bandeira What life is there in the city of the dead? It lives above all in the memory of the departed and those who take care to keep it present. Many of the stories of the city of the living can be found in the buildings that serve as their home, often of remarkable architectural and artistic quality: the wealth and opulence of some of its inhabitants perpetuated in family tombs, both neo-Gothic and modern, as well as the interrupted construction of a monumental church that would link to Rua de S. Vítor. We invite you to visit Porto's first public cemetery at night, founded in 1839, and discover a place where memories of the city are kept. (Paula Santos and Ivo Poças Martins, OHP'17)

58 M-odu (Former Porto's Slaughterhouse) Porto Equipamentos Eng. Monteiro de Andrade / Kengo Kuma e OODA 1910 / A decorrer Use of compulsory safety equipment (provided by the organisation) and compulsory use of closed shoes. Sun 14h, Architect Inês Moreira / Sun 15h+16h, Architect Miguel Rebelo, KKAA / Sun 16h30+17h30, Architect João Styliano, OODA Use of compulsory safety equipment (provided by the organisation) and compulsory use of closed shoes. In the 19th century, municipal slaughterhouses functioned as a fundamental instrument for the health of the urban environment and its inhabitants, which is why they were located on the outskirts of cities, usually in large buildings. The Old Industrial Slaughterhouse of Porto ceased to function in the 1990s and was abandoned for decades, until its reconversion and requalification began in 2022. This project is one of the main actions to revitalise the eastern part of the city, in conjunction with other structuring projects such as the Campanhã Intermodal Terminal, the Dragão Stadium and Praça da Corujeira, in a priority development area for the current municipal executive. In 2015, Porto City Council refused to sell this municipal asset, as the previous executive had advocated, and began the process of defining an intervention project for the Slaughterhouse, signalling the potential of this equipment to serve the city. The work currently underway includes the complete conversion of the complex and the construction of new buildings, as well as 5,500 m2 of public and wooded outdoor spaces. The 20,500,000 m2 of construction will necessarily be dedicated to a multifunctional and multipurpose programme, with a diverse cultural, creative, economic and social offer. The municipality will have 8,000 square metres to create a new extension to the Porto Municipal Gallery, a collection and deposit of works of art, a space dedicated to artistic and community practices, municipal workshops and an educational space. The remaining buildings will be used for offices, commercial and catering spaces. A pedestrian and cycle bridge will also be created over the VCI, linking the Slaughterhouse to the Dragão metro station. (Teresa Novais and Margarida Quintã, OHP'24)

60 Centro Interpretativo do Património da Afurada Vila Nova de Gaia Equipamentos Atalier 15 2012 Sun 15h, Architects Alexandre Alves Costa, Sergio Fernandez and Miguel Ribeiro The Detail Plan of Afurada (2001-2005), part of the Polis program, brought a series of transformations in this fishing area. The Centro Interpretativo do Património da Afurada [Heritage Interpretive Center] (2013), a record of the memory of that place, is the result of the reconstruction of a group of “aprestos” – wooden sheds to store fishing materials – and its adaptation to exhibition space. We suggest that your visit is complemented with the Lavadouro Público (2003) [Public Washhouse], temporary structure and a place of informal gathering. *(Carlos Machado and Moura e Jorge Figueira, OHP'16)*

63 Corpus Christi Space Vila Nova de Gaia Equipamentos Padre Pantaleão da Rocha de Magalhães 1675 Sat 20h+22h, Architects Carla Garrido and Maria José Casanova The original Convent of Corpus Christi, built in 1345, was situated a little closer to the River Douro. Due to the floods, a new building was erected in the 17th century at a slightly higher elevation. It includes the convent chapel with an octagonal floor plan designed by Pantaleão Vieira and the high choir commissioned by Prioress Catarina in 1680 from master carpenter Domingos Lopes. The space is decorated with high-quality carvings with plant designs and the ceiling, divided into 49 coffered ceilings, depicts saints from both the Dominican Order and other orders, with the fifteen central panels alluding to the life and death of Jesus. The recent restoration work has helped to give visibility to one of the city's best-kept treasures. *(Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)*

67 Artillery Regiment of Serra do Pilar Vila Nova de Gaia Equipamentos Frei Brás de Barros 1538 Sat 10h30, 11h30, 12h30 + Sun 10h30, Archeologist J.A.Gonçalves Guimarães* / Sun 11h30, Ph.D. Sérgio Veludo The Serra do Pilar Monastery is now the barracks of the Portuguese Army's 5th Artillery Regiment. Its defensive vocation and occupation is evident due to its location and, today, its size and historical representation. In 1809, it received the Duke of Wellington's troops who, from the south bank, without the Ponte das Barcas, which had disappeared during the conflict, prepared the defeat and withdrawal of the French troops, a victory celebrated in the Monument to the Heroes of the Peninsular War. Later, in the midst of the Portuguese Civil War, during the Siege of Oporto of 1832-1833, the victory of the liberals was witnessed and the vanquished fled, setting fire to the Port wine warehouses. 17,374 barrels of wine and 533 of brandy were lost. King Maria II recognised its importance in 1835 and decreed that it be classified as a 1st Class War Square. *(Inês Moreira and João Paulo Rapagão, OHP'18)*

69 Vila Nova de Gaia Cityhall Vila Nova de Gaia Equipamentos Francisco Oliveira Ferreira / - 1916 / 2023 Sun 11h00, Architect José Pedro Tenreiro This romantic building with its pronounced eclecticism and stonework decoration is a representative example of Oliveira Ferreira's work, in which the Heliântia Clinic is an exception, as it incorporates modern elements. A corner building, it consists of two symmetrical volumes joined by a third central body with a staircase and a large balcony. Visitors are invited to visit the interior of the Town Hall and go up to the Great Hall and the balcony. *(Carlos Machado e Moura and Jorge Figueira, OHP'16)*

70 Fire Brigade and Civil Protection Centre Vila Nova de Gaia Equipamentos Arq. Castro / Município V.N.Gaia 1997 / 2017 1 per hour, Corps of Fire Brigade The Vila Nova de Gaia Fire Brigade and Civil Protection Centre is a building specifically designed to meet the needs of an institution whose foundation dates back to 1839, with the creation of the Vila Nova de Gaia Fire Company. The equipment that makes up this Barracks, from the space for vehicles, to the recently installed Command and Operations Centre, or the School House, dedicated to the ongoing training of its personnel, responds to the specific infrastructure of the current Fire Battalion. Take this opportunity to see all these buildings and discover the vast array of structures and equipment that enable the Gaia Fire Brigade to operate on a daily basis in a wide range of areas.