Hipólito Reis House
António Carneiro House
Located at the western end of a group of plots for detached villas, the site makes the transition to the beautiful landscape of the river end. The design of the volume, where two boxes overlap, results in a privileged relationship of the interior spaces with the environment. The permeability between the interior and exterior spaces […]
House for two sisters
The building to be rehabilitated, consisting of a basement, a commercial ground floor and the two floors, occupies a narrow, deep lot with an area of 215 m2, 6 metres in front and 26 metres deep. The central space contains the access staircase to the semi-floor, achieved by taking advantage of the available ceiling height. […]
Lina House
The rehabilitation project of the house in Rua de Diu can be told in a few words. The programme of the house has been maintained with minor changes and the state of conservation has allowed the majority of the pre-existing construction elements to be recovered. We tried to punctually open new perspectives on spaces and […]
Rehabilitation of the Lordelo Neighbourhood
The first phase of the Rehabilitation Project of the Lordelo Neighbourhood consisted of the preparation of a Diagnostic Study whose main objectives were to analyse the pathologies affecting the façades, the roofs and the common interior areas of the buildings and to present a methodology for the corresponding rehabilitation works; to assess the existing electrical […]
Restelo Neighbourhood House
The building is located in the Restelo Economic Neighbourhood, and is made up of two-storey, single-family townhouses with ceramic tile roofs. In the original configuration of the complex there was a characteristic opposition between the continuous fronts facing the streets and more indented back elevations with protruding volumes. The project proposes the extension of the […]
Quinta do Espio
Rehabilitation of a building by Marques da Silva
* O prédio da Rua Alexandre Braga, propriedade da Fundação Instituto Marques da Silva (FIMS) e projectado pelo arquitecto José Marques da Silva no ano de 1923 foi construído entre 1925 e 1928. Trata-se de um edifício que o arquitecto edificou para rendimento tendo no seu desenvolvimento soluções formais distintas para o mesmo programa. […]
Rehabilitation of the Contumil Neighbourhood, blocks 5A e 6A
The rehabilitation of the surroundings and common areas of blocks 4, 5A and 6A of the Contumil neighbourhood is part of a wider operation to rehabilitate the existing municipal housing stock in Porto. The three blocks shown were built between 1977 and 1980 and rehabilitated between 2010 and 2015. The main objective of the work […]
Viana do Castelo House
New construction on a plot of uneven topography, where there was a valuable group of trees to be preserved and enhanced, as well as a group of buildings and ruins of traditional construction that were incorporated into the proposal. The new house has reclaimed an area of land for sun exposure and sea views […]