Designed by Luís Pedro Silva Arquitecto, Porto Cruise Terminal is a small port complex, an initiative of the Administração dos Portos do Douro e Leixões, located at the South Jetty in Matosinhos, Portugal. The strategic definition of a new cruise terminal had a double objective: improvement of the commercial efficiency and a better urban integration. That’s why the project integrates new buildings, berthing work and exterior spaces of public vocation. The main building shelters several programmatic components: cruise ship terminal, marina facilities, the Science and Technology Park of the Sea of the University of Porto, event rooms, and a restaurant.
Photography: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
The team responsible for the architecture project also coordinated a major team composed of economy, durability, transports, among other usual disciplines. The project was developed over several years with a formal, programmatic and settlement condition’s clearance.
The work was divided into three stages, being concluded the initial two, a new quay and the main building. The last stage integrates the reflecting pool at the core of the main building, the street connecting to the city, the marina settlement, with the treatment of its fronts and the setup of a small support building.
Photography: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
The proposal, largely dependent on the main building, is located in the edge of the port’s South Jetty, within the Atlantic ...