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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.

Casa na Praça Mouzinho de Albuquerque in Braga, Portugal by Carvalho Araújo, Arquitectura e Design

June 4th, 2021 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Carvalho Araújo, Arquitectura e Design

The project “Casa na Praça Mouzinho de Albuquerque” represents the materialization of an exercise of spatial organization within an urban plot with a complex configuration. The location of the building – in one of the main squares in the historic center of Braga, in Portugal – determined the option to preserve the existing volume and façades, and also some characteristic elements inside. The intervention focused on accommodating a family program properly adjusted to the spatial needs and facilities that are currently required, finding in the existing volumetry a reason (not a condition) for the distribution and design of the spaces.

At the back of the plot, a new construction appears that frees itself from the formal and plastic language of the existing one, simultaneously assuming a gesture of rupture and continuity with the existing building, by extending the material of the floor and the back facade.

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Architects: Carvalho Araújo, Arquitectura e Design
Project: Casa na Praça Mouzinho de Albuquerque
Location: Braga, Portugal
Photography: NUDO
Construction Area: 660 m2
Land Area: 745 m2
Year: 2020

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Tags: Braga, Portugal

Categories: House, Interiors, Renovation, Residential

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