In this project, the context as a proto-element of the architectural process is especially relevant since it is very rich, becoming even complex in the relation between the several constraints that are inherent in it.
Although located in a consolidated urban environment, two distinct realities are distinguished in the adjacent sites. In one, a small massive block of flats emerges. In the other, a single-family dwelling with a garden typically cultivated as if it were located in a rural environment.
With it’s beginning in 2015, this building has only been completed in 2018. It’s about a health care residence for elderly people, with 10 double rooms and 4 individual rooms, all of them equipped with their own private facilities.
The building main aim was that of nurturing the necessity of extra bedrooms on the main existing building having therefore functionally some connections and circulations been established between the two.
Inserted in a plot of land of irregular geometry and surrounded by constructions of little architectural value, this villa emerges as a consequence of its constraints.
If, on the one hand there is a reluctance to visually relate the villa’s interior spaces to its immediate surroundings, on the other hand, there is an uncontrollable desire to turn the villa entirely to face eastwards, towards its view of thunderous beauty and discrete privacy.
The original apartment had a characteristic structure of the time, with a long corridor for the distribution of the different spaces, quite compartmentalized.
The customer’s only requirements were to maintain the existing T2 typology and to respect the budget ceiling – one of the project’s challenges.
The first thing that made sense in an area-constrained apartment consisted of \”dissolving\” the long corridor that marked the spatial organization-functioning as the skeleton of the house-and giving it a function.
Article source: JOÃO ARAÚJO SOUSA & JOANA CORREIA SILVA ARQUITECTURA
The project makes an extensive renovation and expansion of a mid-century townhouse close to Porto´s city center. The original two floor dwelling was built in 1950 in a joint operation with the two adjacent buildings. During the course of years the house was transformed in random operations, striped from the original layout and qualifying architectural elements. The project faced the challenge of converting the neglected interior spaces into a contemporary environment with an economically sustainable approach.
Located in Troia, beautiful landscape of fine sand dunes and crystal clear waters, within a housing cluster of some density, this house is conceived as a city with the size of a house.
Article source: P-06 Atelier + Site Specific Arquitectura
This project is the result of a creative process in which architecture and design worked together to make a global renovation of this museum dedicated to the life and worship of Saint Anthony (Santo António), by restoring the old building, developing the exhibition design and also the environmental graphics. The exterior intervention was designed with the primary goal of reinforcing the visibility of the museum in order to announce it more effectively, and also to create a clear visual separation between the two buildings that shape the square (the church and the building where the entrance of the museum is located).Inside the museum, the main concern was to make a global intervention that is felt as something that stands out from the existing architecture (the dark grey enhances that idea), yet with an effective integration on the space’s original geometry and volumes (due to the curve shapes of the newly built display structures). Throughout the museum, the display of pieces and paintings is exclusively made on these structures, that contain several lit niches combined with graphics directly printed on the surfaces (inspired on the idea of “shrine” that relates with this museum’s theme). The global reading of these “reinvented shrines” on the space, gives a continuous exhibition flow that guides the visitor through the narrative sequence.
The house is located in the wills of Faro, facing the valley of Agostos. An interior place protected from the coast. A landscape based on the mediterranean tradition, structured by small plots delimited by stone walls, trees, water tanks and small constructions. The house is implanted in this context embedded in the slope twinned to another existing house.
A walled patio is the central space of the house, an outside living room that contains a raised water tank.
Set in a Lisbon neighbourhood from the thirties, the apartment occupies the last two floors of a building, benefiting from views that from northeast are headed by urban landscape and from southeast, in turn, are dominated by great canopies of trees that inhabit a secular garden near by the building.
The strategic position of the apartment due to his urban context in articulation with domestic space issues prompted the project to focus on the following principles:
Article source: STC – SAMUEL TORRES DE CARVALHO – ARQUITETURA
The building in question has its access made by two streets at different levels, the main access being through Rua do Corpo Santo and the secondary through Rua do Ferragial, which is at a height of 7 meters. This difference originates two semi-buried floors, below the ground of Rua do Corpo Santo.
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