MARKET FORCES

摘要

Working with existing buildings is an important aspect of Eduardo Souto de Moura's oeuvre, but perhaps even he could not have imagined that he would be called upon to remodel one of his own early projects -an intriguing, if slightly double-edged, challenge for any architect. Designed in the early '80s, Braga's Caranda market was Souto de Moura's first public work and was conceived as a conventional market hall serving the densely populated and expanding southern part of Braga. In urban terms, it reflected the influence of Aldo Rossi, forming a covered street that acted as an extension of the surrounding city fabric. With its spare, rational geometry and slender concrete roof slab supported on regimented lines of columns, it also owed a clear debt to Iberian Modernism.