Rehabilitation of Mercado do Bolhão

Rua Formosa 322, Porto

Nuno Valentim, Rita Machado Lima
with: Margarida Carvalho, Frederico Eça, Juliano Ribas e Luís Mendonça (designer)

with:

Maria Ana Sousa Coutinho, Margarida Ramos, Pedro Lima da Costa, Nuno Borges, Filipa Ferreira, Francisca Lopes, Julia Żak, Otília Ayres Pereira, Ricardo Murça, Carolina Manarte,
Ailton Correia, Elsa Pinto, Sara Noronha, Alexandra Gouveia Santos

Engineering: JCT (Structures, Hidraulics, HVAC, Gas, Fire Security), Gatengel (Electric Instalations, Telecomunications, CTM, Electromechanics), GM (Cold)
Consulting: Prof. Vasco Peixoto de Freitas (Hygrothermics), Prof. Aníbal Costa (Structures), António Vasques (Conservation and Restoration)
Enterprise Management: Sofia Barbosa, Sara Matias – GoPorto, Gestão e Obras do Porto EM
Inspection: MC2E, Consultores de Engenharia, Lda.
Contractor: Lúcios & ACA – Bolhão ACE (Consórcio Alberto Couto Alves e Lúcio da Silva Azevedo & Filhos)
Work direction: Hugo Fonseca, Telmo Soares

Brand and Signs: Studio Eduardo Aires
Photography: Marta Maria Ferreira / Luís Ferreira Alves e CMP / GoPorto

Construction (original): 1914-1920 (Arq. António Correia da Silva) Client: GoPorto, E.M. Gabinete do Mercado do Bolhão: Arq. Cátia Meirinhos, Dr. Francisco R. Antunes
Mercado Direction: Tânia Coelho, Cristina Lisboa, Francisco Castro

The listing as “monument of public interest” attributed by Portaria 613/2013 of September the 20th to Mercado do Bolhão, recognizes heritage value to two inseparable dimensions – the uniqueness of the Beaux Arts building and its function as a traditional market.

The intervention to the 1914-1917’s building and market, originally designed by architect António Correia da Silva, builds on the recuperation and enhacement of the building and the modernization necessary to meet the demands of the activity as central market of fresh products in Porto.

This action, transformative but attentive to the existing values, seeks to restore the building’s identity and coherence, open it to the city and update its function – in a demanding consideration between material and immaterial heritage.