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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Santa Teresa House in Porto, Portugal by PF Architecture StudioJune 8th, 2016 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: PF Architecture Studio Santa Teresa is a street located in the heart of the reborn Oporto downtown, A big urban area that slowly got abandoned and grew older in the last thirty years, but has recently been subject of a radical change, either social, cultural, economic and architectural consequently.  Image Courtesy © João Morgado
 Image Courtesy © João Morgado Within this dynamic, very driven by tourism, we were invited to refurbish the Santa Teresa building: a house of the nineteenth century, on a typical batch built into many of the quarters of Oporto. The plant is a rectangle (5.50 x 20,00m) with centred but asymmetric stairs, which has undergone several use changes over the century. XX, coming to us in a state of pre-ruin.  Image Courtesy © João Morgado  Image Courtesy © João Morgado The challenge: create the largest possible number of small apartments for temporary lease, city breaks. The proposal is assumed in response to this program, in which the existing guide serves us for a timelines dialogue, and based on a simple principle: re-inhabit the space respecting the two moments: the past and the present, the existing and the new. The solution comes ironically from Malvina Reynolds Little Boxes song.  Image Courtesy © João Morgado  Image Courtesy © João Morgado The principle of preserving the entire building structure, floors, walls, ceilings, doors and windows with their formal characteristics and unique tectonic, and integrate small white, unpretentious and abstract boxes that house the new program elements such as kitchens and homes bath, formally defining the existing and the new.  Image Courtesy © João Morgado  Image Courtesy © João Morgado The result are nine purged apartments, where the light plays a fundamental role in the space design.  Image Courtesy © João Morgado  Image Courtesy © João Morgado  Image Courtesy © João Morgado  Image Courtesy © João Morgado  Image Courtesy © João Morgado  Image Courtesy © João Morgado  Image Courtesy © João Morgado  Image Courtesy © João Morgado  Image Courtesy © João Morgado  Image Courtesy © João Morgado  Image Courtesy © João Morgado  Image Courtesy © João Morgado  Image Courtesy © PF Architecture Studio  Image Courtesy © PF Architecture Studio  Image Courtesy © PF Architecture Studio
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