Joao Morgado shared with us his recent photography of the Rowing High Performance Centre.
Designed by Alvaro Andrade, in coordination with MPT, the Rowing High Performance Centre in Pocinho is located in one of the most beautiful and idyllic valleys in the world – the Douro valley – one of the places of choice for champions of this sport.
courtesy Joao Morgado
courtesy Joao Morgado
courtesy Joao Morgado
The project is structured into three key components: Social Zone, Housing and Training. The entire project fuses with the reinterpretation of two secular elements of landscape construction in Douro Valley: the walled terraced, a recurrent form of “inhabiting” this place, and the great white volumes of large production units, deployed along the terrain, are formally complex and diverse volumetrically.
courtesy Joao Morgado
courtesy Joao Morgado
courtesy Joao Morgado
+ Project facts
Architecture: Alvaro Andradre
Coordination: MPT
Client: Vila Nova de Foz Côa Municipality
Contractor: Manuel Vieira e Irmãos Lda
Area: 8000 sqm
Photography: Joao Morgado– Architecture Photography
+ All images courtesy Joao Morgado
