The allotment of Violantas was designed along a street with lots on both sides and is located in the parish of Beiriz. The surrounding area has fields for cultivating corn and grass, but to the west in the distance you can already see the “towers” of the city, in Póvoa de Varzim.
The narrow and long lot, with a wide area for implantation and construction, made it possible to organize the volumes according to the needs of single-family housing. In the street, it was mandatory to maintain and rebuild the granite wall that separates the parking area and the car circulation area.
The project approach to the remodeling accommodation units, is based on two remarkable pre-existing principles.
It is a building marked by its strong connection to the Japanese garden, developing around it, in a traditional central garden environment. The architecture that designs it, is a pragmatic exercise, very organized and formally within a reticulated pattern of contained dimensioning, in regular metrics.
Owner of a house with more than nine years of existence and armed with an entrepreneurial spirit that is natural to him, the client approached us with the problems well outlined. He intended to grow the house in order to reduce the waiting time of the clients, a space with a strong character that would fit with the remaining corporate image of the company and solve the problem of noise that arose whenever the house was full.
spacelovers was founded by an innovative and experienced team based in Lisbon, Portugal. They created their firm to embody the attitude of intervening in buildings, in a technically informed way, connoisseurs of the difficulties and potentialities of each building, to transform them into valued spaces.
Inserted in a hotel unit, in Ponta Delgada, the restaurant in open since 2004, already presented some need for revitalization, despite the predominant relation with the central courtyard of the hotel, characterized by its garden of strong oriental inspiration and its mirror of water inhabited by carp [KOI].
‘Casa Trevo’ or ‘Trefoil House’ is a two-storey residence, located south of Lisbon, Portugal. The site’s close proximity to the Atlantic Ocean provides pleasant breezes and plenty of sunshine, across all seasons. The project sits in a forest of pine trees, rising tall above a sandy terrain.
In Saldanha, one of the top neighborhoods for restaurants in Lisbon, the new The Green Affair Vegan Restaurant takes place.
On the historical blue facade, a golden metallic cover announces the singularity of the space. Once inside, the wood, the stone and the steel on a green-brownish palette flood the space. Thanks to this moodboard selection, the brand soul and philosophy is breathed in every corner.
Starting from the existing building, the project foresees its conservation, alteration and necessary expansion to respond to the intended program; the first purpose will be to protect and enhance the building, as well as the surrounding garden. Demolition of part of the building in the far northeast is expected, keeping the volume on the face of Padre Luís Cabral street.
The São Bento Residences project is located on a notable corner of Porto’s Historic Centre, next to São Bento Station, just a few meters from the main cathedral and the city’s central avenue. This corner results from a 1930’s demolition plan of an extensive side of Rua do Loureiro (18th century street) for the development of a modern road axis: Avenida D. Afonso Henriques. This axis generated an open “wound” in the city centre, an urban void that exposed a granite escarpment (resulting from the demolition), presently maintained and requalified by the municipality as a landscape fragment.
Architecture Project: Atelier Pedra Líquida – Nuno Grande and Alexandra Coutinho (coordination), Carlos Campos, Catarina Fernandes, Hugo Amaral, Maria Manuel Barreiros, Inês Ribeiro; Ana Sousa and Filipa Figueiredo (building control)
Located in one of the most typical and established neighbourhoods of Aveiro (Beira Mar), this residence is the result of a passionate and challenging reform, a reform which intends to return to the city and to its users a lifestyle which is free and in contact with outdoor spaces, with the sound of seagulls and the smell of the sea breeze, the colour of the sky and the green of the vegetation.
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