Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has revealed its scheme for a community village on a hillside site near the city of Porto, to host the headquarters for the global technology platform, Farfetch. 
© Lucian R, courtesy of BIG ? Bjarke Ingels Group
Dubbed ?Fuse Valley? by the developers, or ?The Portuguese Silicon Valley? by many others, BIG?s project will be located 7 kilometers from Porto?s city center and covers an area of 178,000 square meters.
To curate this scheme, BIG collaborated with the British-Portuguese luxury fashion retail platform Farfetch and the real estate developer Castro Group. The latter?s headquarters will occupy 12 interconnected buildings out of the 24 buildings within the community village. Farfetch HQ is expected to start construction early in 2023 and open in 2025 as part of Fuse Valley.  The 24 buildings within Fuse Valley are home to various tech companies, startups, and services. In its design, BIG gave priority to creating a sense of a community?it aimed to strengthen the connection between the indoors and the outdoors, creating plazas, parks, courtyards, terraces, and landscaped roofs. These nodes are accessible through natural paths that go up and down following the natural contour of the hillside. 
© Lucian R, courtesy of BIG ? Bjarke Ingels Group
?Rather than a corporate office complex, Farfetch’s future home in Fuse Valley will be a lively urban ensemble bringing every curator, creator, customer, and collaborator together in the most inn...