THE ENGINEERING TONES: COMMUNITY, TRANSPARENCY, SYMMETRIES

BY CATARINA SANTOS, MARIA JOÃO FARIA, MARIA LUISA MESQUITA

This visual narrative intends to portray photographically the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, located in the Asprela pole and its direct/indirect relations between the exterior and the interior. It is a college of irregularly regular plan, because from its asymmetrical axis we can notice symmetries in the two wings that compose it. Firstly, the main building, with its 7 annexes, which face the street (creating, almost, a feeling of a wall for those who pass by). On the opposite side, the various engineering departments, apparently independent, are interconnected.