LORDELO DO OURO COOPERATIVE | REHABILITATION FOR A PILGRIM’S HOSTEL IN THE CITY OF PORTO

This is an architecture project for the Lordelo do Ouro Cooperative in Porto, done in my fifth year as an architecture student at University of Minho.

The idea for this project is the requalification of the building for a Hostel of Pilgrims in the city of Porto. Its privileged location and cultural value, as well as the large areas and morphological layout makes this building the ideal candidate for this renovation.

It is also pointed out the Cooperative’s own need to reinvent itself and bring life back to this architectonic set by architect Siza Vieira. Nowadays, we find an aging population, a somewhat degraded building and part of it completely closed to the public. Thus, a program was thought out so that the Cooperative could enjoy and prosper with it.