Places
Casa da Arquitectura
Regular Visits
Tours
Sat 10h + Dom 11h, Engineer Raquel Pinto / Sat 11h, Architect Inês Moreira
Caleidoscópio
Maximum 8 people per visit
No reservation required; first-come, first-served
No wheelchair access
Photography allowed
Description
In the Largo do Ouro [Gold Square] there is an isolated volume that looks like a small kiosk or cabin. The volume, with a sort of tower on top, is the door of a dimly lit subterranean room, illuminated by the zenith-like light opening of the entrance chimney, by which we go down to the space designed to hold a Shone ejector. The still active station is part of the sanitation project that the Porto Municipality started to prepare in 1896, from the patented debris injection system, at the end of 1870, by London contractors Hughes & Lancaster. With tile walls, and access by a cast iron spiral staircase, the room makes itself be announced by its cabin and also an “ornamental column” of ventilation. The simultaneous presence of these two architectural elements in other points of the city always hides a room like this.
Location
Largo do Calém
Directions: Google Maps / Apple Maps
Public Transport
Bus: STCP - 207, 500, 504