Bjarke ingels group / BIG has unveiled designs for a 178,000 sqm art-filled site for tech companies called ‘fuse valley’. already dubbed by many as ‘the portuguese silicon valley’, the project is conceived as a community village that will occupy a hillside site 7km from the center of porto.
the extensive scheme has been developed by BIG alongside real estate developer Castro Group and fashion e-commerce platform FARFETCH, whose new headquarters will occupy 12 interconnected buildings within fuse valley.
project info:
name: FARFETCH HQ / FUSE VALLEY
location: leça do balio, matosinhos, portugal
architecture: bjarke ingels group / BIG
program: commercial
status: in progress
size: 178,000 sqm
project type: competition
client: FARFETCH, CASTRO GROUP
collaborators: OODA (executive architect – competition) ventura & partners arquitectos (executive architect) dimscale (cost management) quadrante (engineering and sustainability design) PROAP arquitectura paisagista (landscape design) FILAMENTO (lighting design) PACIFICA (signage & wayfinding design) LIMSEN (BIM manager) FEUP/IC (BIM manager) VHM (allotment architect) AMBISITUS (environmental study) ENGIMIND (traffic consultant) CORE (project management) CASTRO RED (project management) AFA (engineering plot B) NdBIM (BIM manager plot B)
project team:
partner-in-charge: bjarke ingels, joao albuquerque
project leader: hanna johansson
project manager: natacha fernandes da ponte viveiros
project architect: mireia sala font
team: angel barreno, alberto gonzalez-garces, geoffrey eberly, gonzalo castro, gonzalo coronado, jakub fratczak, javier mora, mathieu michel, matthew reger, paula madrid, stefani fachini,tristany serra, wei lesley, alvaro villanueva, ariadna mejias, elena ceribelli, gabriella luppi, gabriela dal seco, giulia orlando, lena mariella von buren, miquel benedito, raphaël logan & ragna nordström