Escola do Bom Sucesso

The Building Pictures film reveals a CREA project, which includes the rehabilitation of Bom Sucesso school, the construction of a sports complex and a new kindergarten Barbosa du Bocage.

The film begins with the contextualization of the school, in the urban fabric. It is there, right in the center of a densely populated area, that the school project is located. You can hear the noise of cars and the frantic bustle of the city.

In an initial phase, the empty school is observed, the birds chirping can be heard ... With the morning dawn, the bell rings and space is invaded by children. They run everywhere, playing on the ocher-coloured screed that marks the perimeter of the tree-lined playground.

The intervention plan included the rehabilitation of the basic school, opened in 1958, as well as the demolition of the prefabricated one where the kindergarten was installed and the construction of two new volumes, which reorder the relationship with the street.

The film ends with several aerial plans showing the contrast between the school, camouflaged among the trees in the playground, and the consolidated concrete block in which it is involved, right in the center of Porto.