Places
DomusSocial, EM / CMP
Regular Visits
Tours
Visit accompanied by Architect Eliseu Gonçaves
Caleidoscópio
Maximum 10 people per visit
No reservation required; first-come, first-served
No wheelchair access
Photography allowed
Description
Property built in 1937 by Porto’s municipality to try to solve the city’s chronic problem of lack of housing. The group of buildings is composed by two elements: an isolated volume in the interior of the lot with a U-shape plan; and a “building” constructed facing the street, closing the open patio through the block. On Duque de Saldanha Street the group of buildings is only perceptible by the hole in the elevation that draws the public crossing to the interior of the block. Right after being built, the collective character of this proposal was pursued by the ruralist views of the Estado Novo [New State]. Given the formal and ideological analogy of its “passages” that praise the opening of collective housing to the city, it was known as Porto’s “Karl Marx-Hof”in a reference to the collective housing built in Vienna in the 1920s by architect Karl Ehn.
Location
Rua Duque de Saldanha, 106
Directions: Google Maps / Apple Maps
Public Transport
Subway: Linha A, B, C, E, F - Campo 24 de Agosto
Bus: STCP - 207, 300, 400