自13世纪以来，葡萄牙一直在庆祝狂欢节，在托雷斯维德拉斯的集体想象中占据了核心地位。
Carnival is celebrated in Portugal since the 13th century, occupying a central position in the collective imaginary of Torres Vedras.
狂欢节艺术中心（CAC）项目将这一集体想象具体化，改造了一个废旧的屠宰场和一个残疾的采石场，同时为一个被边缘化的社区提供一个广场，以建立一个新的公民和城市活力。
The project for the Carnival Arts Centre (CAC) materializes this collective reference, transforming a ruined slaughterhouse and a disabled quarry while offering a plaza to a marginalized neighborhood in order to establish a new civic and urban vitality.
这个社区位于S.Vicente山，围绕着采石场和屠宰场发展，直到它们都关闭，成为城市边缘的一个衰败的碎片。然而，屠宰场的遗迹保留了其标志性的价值，反映了这个地方的身份，而曾经作为屠宰场牲畜的牧场的采石场，形成了一个被悬崖包围的平台，其大小、形状和物质性给这个地方带来了梦幻般的感觉。
This neighborhood, located on S. Vicente Hill, had grown around the quarry and the slaughterhouse until they both closed down and became a decaying fragment on the edge of the city. However, the remains of the slaughterhouse preserved its iconographic value, which reflected the identity of the place, and the quarry, once taken as pasture for the slaughterhouse livestock, resulted as a platform embraced by an escarpment, whose size, shape, and materiality gave a dreamlike feeling to the site.
旧的屠宰场被修复，作为CAC的主入口，包含展览室和商店，直接与街道相连。在其核心部分存在的用于动物血液通风和排水的院子的痕迹被改造成一个圆形楼梯，与一个大天窗相结合，成为展览路线的起点和主要展览容器的结构支撑，其中一个大窗户框住了火山口和非正式城市景观的视野。
The old slaughterhouse was rehabilitated to serve as CAC's main entrance, containing exhibition rooms and a shop, directly related to the street. The traces of a courtyard that existed in its core, for the animals' blood ventilation and drainage, were transformed in order to become a circular staircase that, combined with a large skylight, is the starting point to the exhibition route and the structural support of the main exhibition container where a large window frames the view of the crater and the informal cityscape.
旧平台现在是一个城市广场，其形式是火山口形状所暗示的几何学的结果，因此被悬崖的质量所限定，与新主体的椭圆表面连续，包含了天空照明的可访问的存款，并因食堂和博物馆车间的存在而生动，广泛地开放到一个有盖的户外画廊。
The old platform is now an urban plaza whose form is a result of the geometry suggested by the shape of the crater, thus qualified by the mass of the escarpment in continuity with the elliptical surface of the new body that contains the sky lit visitable deposits, and animated by the presence of the cafeteria and the museum workshops, widely opening into a covered outdoor gallery.
最重要的是，预计CAC将具有创造场所的能力，作为庆祝狂欢节的房子和城市剧院，以及市民日常实践的舞台，因此这个街区将再次成为城市空间和时间的一部分。
Above all, it is expected that CAC will have a place-making capacity as a house and urban theater for the celebration of Carnival, as well as a stage for the daily practices of citizens, so this neighborhood will become again part of the space and time of the city.
Architects: José Neves
Area : 4100 m²
Year : 2020
Photographs :Paulo Catrica
Architect In Charge : José Neves
Project Team : Rui Sousa Pinto, André Matos, Fernando Freire, Sara Brandão, Vitor Quaresma, Vasco Melo, Paulo Cunha
Construction : Carlos Almada, Diogo Amaro, Inês Oliveira, João Tereso
Color Consulting : João Pernão, Maria Capelo
Country：Portugal
