Installed at the edge of Gaia, this new equipment clearly exceeds its nautical component, creating a set of complementary services and activities, relevant to the economic and social value of the urban area in which it belongs. The organization and hierarchy of this new space is achieved through the implementation of three new buildings.

A linear building, which stretches along the existing car park, defining the boundary between pedestrian and automobile, in balance with two perpendicular buildings that are suspended in the slope, linking paths at the highest level with the existing marginal route at the lower level.

Distributed by a two-storey volumetry, the longitudinal building integrates the reception, changing rooms, workshops, administration offices, secretarial, two training rooms, meeting room and a set of commercial spaces.

The two perpendicular buildings, also with a two-storey height, will be occupied by a restaurant on the first building and a spa/gym in the second building.

Douro Marina, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Program: marina
Architects: Barbosa & Guimaraes (José Antonio Barbosa and Pedro Lopes Guimaraes)
Collaborators: Miguel Pimenta, Paula Fonseca, José Marques, Henrique Dias, Mafalda Santiago, Pedro Araújo, Frederico Roeber, Nuno Pereira, Marta Pupo, Ana Oliveira, Diana Bizarro, Filipa Ferreira, Carlos Ribeiro, Joana Carvalho, Joana Pinto, Tiago Sousa
Client: M. Couto Alves – Marina de Gaia, lda.
Area: 1.384 sqm
Completion: 2013