Optocentro Optics
OPTOCENTRO OPTICS
Gustavo Guimarães Arquitectura & Urbanismo
ARCHITECTS
Gustavo Guimarães
LEAD ARCHITECT
Gustavo Guimarães
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Proquality
CIVIL ENGINEERING
HDP- Gabinete de Serviços e Projectos de Engenharia Civil Lda.
CLIENTE
Optocentro
MANUFACTURERS
Autodesk, Balsan, Mapei, Brilumen, Forbo, Jab
DESIGN TEAM
Gabriela Barbosa, Maria Peña
HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
Rossana Pereira
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Niluft Engenharia
PHOTOGRAPHS
Nelson Garrido
AREA
200 m²
YEAR
2019
LOCATION
Porto, Portugal
CATEGORY
Store, Interior Design, Retail Interiors
What we see, what look at us. The visitor is guided by the presence of three arches.
The first one, a welcoming green Guatemala marble surface, invites you to enter the space.
When gently merged with the interior, the visitor anticipates the second arch, located at the end of the exhibition space.
The third inverted arch located at the upper floor, at the end of the private consultation offices, doubles as a viewpoint to the street or, when perceived by the user, an invitation to explore when entering the store.
A stainless-steel ceiling becomes a big inverted mirror, inviting the user to explore different perspectives of the real.
The tectonic exploration of the blue-ataíja limestone is the unifying “canvas” of the entire project.
