ArchShowcase Posts Tagged ‘Portugal’X/A Apartments in Madalena, Portugal by Atelier Xavier ÁvilaThursday, March 23rd, 2017Article source: Atelier Xavier Ávila X/A apartments is a project designed by an architecture studio based in Madalena, Pico Island, Azores: X/A atelier The project was developed by the architect Sofia Xavier Avila, owner and manager of the studio, in partnership with João Xavier Avila.  Image Courtesy © Atelier Xavier Ávila
Quinta da Laje in Felgueiras, Portugal by PitagorasgroupFriday, March 17th, 2017Article source: pitagorasgroup This is a project to restore and enlarge a single-family dwelling that was initiated in 2004 with the actual building works carrying on until 2012. The property stands on a large tract of land in a rural environment characterised by a wide variety of vegetation. The existing constructions included two volumes: an annex on the west which was practically in ruins and was used for agricultural purposes; and a house on the west attached to neighbouring buildings.  Image Courtesy © Pitagorasgroup
Paço de Vitorino Hotel in Ponte de Lima, Portugal by PROD architecture & designTuesday, February 28th, 2017Article source: PROD architecture & design Paço de Vitorino is a manor house located in the north of Portugal that has been in the same family since the mid-16th century. It’s history is marked several relevant events. The most outstanding dates from the mid-18th century when a major intervention occurred according to baroque canons. The resulting structure is characterized by a three stories main house on the east side, two lateral wings on the north and south side and a small chapel along the entrance wall on the west. These elements delineate a central large yard defined by adorned facades.  Image Courtesy © João Morgado Fotografia de Arquitectura
Casa Acreditar Porto in Portugal by atelier do cardoso . arquitectosThursday, February 23rd, 2017Article source: atelier do cardoso . arquitectos Casa Acreditar do Porto is a very peculiar project, with a very specific program, for a universe of very special users. The House is designed for 16 children and adolescents with cancer who, during the period of treatments to be done at the Porto IPO, need a House to stay with their families. As such, the main objective of this project was to create a building, a living space with the maximum of comfort, that could help to overcome the longing, creating a familiar environment in a coexistence of friendship and solidarity.  Image Courtesy © João Morgado
FB Office in Lisbon, Portugal by WAATAA_we are all together around architectureWednesday, February 22nd, 2017Article source: WAATAA_we are all together around architecture The office is materialized from the transformation of two independent commercial space in a single physically connected one. Apparently in an unnatural way, the resulting unified space is re-divided in three with distinct identities. Two different work spaces in opposite sides and a transition passage that regulates the hierarchical and functional relation between them.  Image Courtesy © WAATAA_we are all together around architecture
LISBON STONE BLOCK in Lisboa, Portugal by Souza Oliveira – Arquitectura e Urbanismo Lda.Tuesday, February 21st, 2017Article source: Souza Oliveira – Arquitectura e Urbanismo Lda. Lisbon and its “new avenues” (built in the beginning of the past century) are always a challenge for an architect. Lisbon’s Stone Block is located in the corner of two major streets and that position is somehow special in the relation that the building it-self creates with the “urban net”. The idea/concept of the building is based in a “mutant facade”: a skin in stone, almost metamorphoses and movable.  Image Courtesy © Nelson Garrido
RF III APARTMENT in Lisboa, Portugal by Joao Tiago Aguiar ArquitectosSunday, February 19th, 2017Article source: Joao Tiago Aguiar Arquitectos Transformation of a 4 bedroom apartment into a 2 bedroom apartment, increasing this way its social areas . The apartment was essentially developed along its length, structuring itself around a long corridor. However, thanks to two existing courtyards in the building it benefited from the entry of natural light in its inner part. The house was quite compartmentalized, and the rooms, with tiny areas, were mainly oriented to those courtyards. On the rear façade there used to be a very large and disqualified marquise devoted to storage and cleaning areas. It had only one complete bathroom.  Image Courtesy © FG+SG
Dafundo Apartment in Lisboa, Portugal by Joao Tiago Aguiar ArquitectosFriday, February 17th, 2017Article source: Joao Tiago Aguiar Arquitectos Built with tabique (traditional wooden partitions), this building situated on the river bank of the Dafundo area, develops a privileged relationship with the river. The future residence of a couple who are marine biologists, the intervention had as its main premise the perusal of this relation with the water, in a way to allow its visibility in as many as possible points of the house.  Image Courtesy © FG+SG
Av.Roma Apartment in Lisboa, Portugal by Joao Tiago Aguiar ArquitectosThursday, February 16th, 2017Article source: Joao Tiago Aguiar Arquitectos The apartment was too compartmentalized in the social areas. There was only one common bathroom, since the other was conditioned to the maid’s room, only accessible from the kitchen. The main idea was to bring together living-room, entrance hall and kitchen in an uninterrupted space, giving access to other compartments through a single indoor hall. The elimination of the maid’s room also enabled increasing the kitchen and the reorganization of the bathrooms.  Image Courtesy © FG+SG
Museum of Mechanical Music in Palmela, Portugal by MIGUEL MARCELINO, ARQ. LDA.Wednesday, February 8th, 2017Article source: MIGUEL MARCELINO, ARQ. LDA. The museum consists of a completely closed, opaque and abstract box. Just the main façade has a concavity that marks the entrance of the building. It houses a private colection of mechanical music boxes. The organization is cruciform, around a central patio, that distributes to the buildings four sides. In one side there is the lobby, that works as a vertical distribution space, and to the other sides are three galleries of varying sizes. The transition between each of these four spaces is done through four antechambers.  Image Courtesy © Archive Miguel Marcelino
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