架构师提供的文本描述。大约300年来，城市一直在增长，吸收以前为工业、仓储/物流、农业等其他职能所保留的领土。随着这一过程的发展，围绕这些地区的移动变得越来越困难：交通变得混乱；在居民区和服务区附近禁止污染活动；土地价格上涨。现有的功能往往离市中心更远，留下了可以拆除或改造的大型工业综合体。第二种选择不仅在经济和环境可持续性方面，而且在这些地方的潜在美学和历史价值方面都是可取的。

Text description provided by the architects. For approximately 300 years cities have been growing, assimilating territory previously reserved for other functions like industry, warehousing/logistics, agriculture, etc. As this process develops, moving around these areas becomes more and more difficult: traffic becomes chaotic; polluting activities are forbidden close to residential and service areas; the price of land goes up. Existing functions tend to move farther away from the city centre, leaving behind huge industrial complexes that can be demolished or adapted. The second option is preferable not only regarding economic and environmental sustainability but also the potential aesthetic and historic value of these places.

Lionesa商务中心很好地反映了这个问题。它以前是一家纺织工厂，在20世纪90年代前后关闭，后来变成了一个商业中心。以前的仓库和生产空间被划分为办公和商业用途，创造了一个非常有特色的环境。

Lionesa Business Center reflects this issue quite well. Previously a weaving factory, it was closed around 1990s and later transformed into a business center. Former warehouse and production spaces are being divided for office and commercial use creating a very characteristic environment.

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老工厂位于波尔图市外，沿着连接北方和隔层的两条主要交通要道。现有的空间是由公司特别选择的开放空间，高天花板，石墙，实木路面和自然闪电，这是必须维护的特点。

The old factory is located just outside the city of Porto along 2 of the main transport arteries that connect to the North and interlard. The existing space was chosen specially by the company for its open space, high ceiling, stone walls, solid wood pavement and natural lightning, features that were imperative to maintain.

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该空间分为底层：包括主入口和员工入口、主要开放的工作空间、部门会议、打印和服务器室、储物柜和浴室，由一条连接所有不同部门和空间、跨越整个空间的长走廊提供；所有经理办公室、主会议室、陈列室和咖啡厅/休息室都有1S层(由钢框架结构建造)，并通过分销走廊连接起来，俯瞰底层的工作空间：这样，主要使用一楼的游客就能感受到公司的工作环境而不受干扰。

The space was divided between ground floor: comprising main entrance and employees entrance, major open work space, department meeting, printing and server rooms, lockers and bathrooms served by a long corridor that connects all the different departments and spaces and crosses the entire space; and a 1s floor (build by a steel frame structure) for all the managers offices, main meeting room, showroom and café/lounge space, connected also by distribution corridor overlooking the working space on ground floor: this way visitors, that will mainly use the 1st floor, can have a feeling of the companies work environment without disturbing it.

 Floor Plan

通过离开双高度的工作空间，保证了空间是人的最大量，工作中充满了自然光。为了确保使用的明确性，一楼由两端进入：后门主要供雇员进入咖啡厅/休息室，而前面的通道主要面向访客、不同的管理办公室和主要会议室。

By leaving the working space with double height it is ensured that the space were the most amount of people work is full of natural light. The 1st floor is accessed by both ends to ensure clarity of use: the back access is mostly for employees to access the café/lounge, while the front access is directed mainly for visitors, for the different managing offices and main meeting room.

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最终的结果是一个功能和有组织的工作空间充满了光明和一个不断微妙的提醒建筑物的历史。

The end result is a functional and organized working space full of light with a constant subtle reminder of the buildings history.

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Bernardo葡萄牙苏珊娜Saraiva为大都会