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MEGALITHIC MUSEUM

CVDB
PORTUGAL

© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

PROJECT DETAILS:

Team: CVDB Arquitectos Associados e/and Tiago Filipe Santos Architecture - Authorship & Co-ordination:  Cristina Veríssimo  Diogo Burnay Tiago Filipe Santos Architecture - Collaboration: Joana Barrelas  Rodolfo Reis  Eliza Borkowska  Elizabeta Vito  Hugo Nascimento  Ilaria Anselmi  Magdalena Czapluk Exhibition Project: P-06 Atelier e/and Site Specific Arquitectura Project manager: Nuno Gusmão e/and Paulo Costa Development: Pedro Anjos (design) e/and Simão Botelho (arquitectura) Landscape Architecture:  Bound, arquitectos paisagistas - Arq.ª Maria João Fonseca e/and Arq.º Armando Ferreira Museology Consultant:  Prof.ª Dra. Leonor Rocha Engineering: Projectual Location: Mora - Portugal Client: Mora Municipality Procedure: International Public Competition – 1st prize Chronology: Competition – 2012  Project – 2013  Construction – 2016 Construction Built Area: 1.200,00 m²/sqm Landscape Area: 1.100,00 m²/sqm Total Construction Cost: 2.200.000,00 Euros Photography: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

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The Megalithic Museum is located at Mora’s urban centre, close to a future public park. The town and region, are well known for its archaeological findings. The museum intendeds to be a local and national reference and an important asset to the cultural regeneration of the town. 

The old train station in Mora is an iconic building that is part of the town heritage. The building is deeply rooted in the long-lasting collective memory of Mora’ inhabitants and visitors. The project clarifies and enhances the architectural value of the existing buildings, in a gesture of careful refurbishment.

The museum complex integrates the old train station, its warehouse and two new buildings. The new buildings are the main exhibition area (West) and a cafeteria (East). The four buildings are connected through a continuous outdoor gallery that is located along the north side of the site. The gallery resembles the linearity of the old train station dock. The gallery is the element that conceptually unifies the project, solving the circulation and the relation between all the different programmes.