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The building of the Serralves Museum was designed by architect, Álvaro Siza, who was invited in the early 1990s to design a museum project that took into consideration the specific characteristics of the physical setting and the need for integration within the surrounding landscape. The initial studies were drawn up in 1991 and construction began five years later. The building was erected in the former vegetable garden of the Serralves Estate. The slope of the terrain enabled the building to be partially buried, thus minimising its visual impact on the surroundings. The choice of this zone also overcame the need to cut down trees and facilitated public access to the Museum via a new entrance created in the Rua D. João de Castro.
Landscaping of the area around the Museum began in 1998, on the basis of designs by João Gomes da Silva. One of the main premises underlying the project was the building’s relationship with the exterior, by means of large windows. It was decided to introduce vegetaion from the North of Portugal and create a mixture of dense foliage and clearings. This new landscape accentuated the importance of sunlight in fostering different perspectives of the building and its surrounding spaces.