SITE GALLERY

The building, unusually placed under the massive pre-existent ruins, creates an
interesting entrance to the exhibition space and opens the view towards the river.
The project is well-controlled at different scales: the plan is balanced and has a
clear connection with the marked line of the city.
The project deals with the existing historical presence by re-interpreting the acquired
notion of an infrastructure. The ruins become the leading signs of a new paradigmatic
approach, as a protruding platform from the Mértola Citadel that engages the river as
an ideal port, a gate and an open square. The overall architectural design result looks
clear, powerful and synthetic.
A project in the powerful expression which puts forward the thickness of the bank. It
creates a base and a foundation in the elements of the heritage. The material of the
site and the project takes its strength of the horizontal of the water.