Power Plant for Foz Tua Dam
Under construction- Architect Eduardo Souto de Moura
- Type Infraestructure
- Material Concrete
- Date 2011 - 2017
- City Alijó
- Country Portugal
- Photographer Arquivo ESM Arménio Teixeira
The aim is to eliminate the character of ‘building,’ reducing its image to that of a ‘machine’ in the landscape. A concrete ‘cap’ covers the buried elements (two wells and the atrium); to the exterior only a fissure of 1 meter in height is visible on the rock.
The platform, 36 meters wide, forced to make a cut in the mountain with a slope of 45º. To make sure that the final result would be as natural as possible, concrete walls were not used, and the rock was cut and covered with a metallic net, practically imperceptible... [+]
Obra Work
Power plant for Foz Tua Dam
Arquitecto Architect
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Fecha del proyecto Date of the project
2011-2014
Construcción Construction
2011-final de end of 2017
Cliente Client
EDP
Equipo Team
Tiago Figueiredo (coordinador coordinator); Elisa Lindade, Diogo Guimarães, Filipa Biscaínho, Daniel Castro
Consultores Consultant
EDP+Coba (ingeniería de estructuras structure engineering); EDP+GPIC (ingeniería eléctrica electrical engineering); EDP (ingeniería mecánica e hidráulica mechanical and hydraulic engineering)
Constructor Construction
Somague + Mota Engil
Fiscalización Supervision
FASE
Fotos Photos
Arquivo ESM (E. Souto de Moura)
Fotógrafo de maquetas Model photographer
Arménio Teixeira
