M2 Senos Arquitectos: All around you can still feel the old farm fields, but this is still a very urban house. The owners inherited the land from their grandparents and decided to build this house on it. A ground floor (or predo minantly ground floor) house that accomplishes the family ́s desires. The parcel, with little depth, extends slowly along...
Project name
Casa em Ílhavo (Ílhavo House)
Architecture firm
M2 Senos Arquitectos
Location
Rua das Cancelas, Ílhavo, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Ricardo Senos, Sofia Senos
Structural engineer
Eng.o Amadeu Carvalho
Construction
Licínio Martins Lourenço, Lda
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
A tiny palace in a narrow garden. The luxuriant environment suggested an ambivalent approach to the architectural object. At human height, the palace is transparent, but its crown is proud, adorned with precious stones, and spanning across the perimeter walls.
Project name
Fala #050 "Very Tiny Palazzo"
Architecture firm
Fala Atelier
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares
Design team
Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, Ahmed Belkhodja, Lera Samovich, Ana Lima, Rute Peixoto, Paulo Sousa
Typology
Residential › House, Extension
The house was intended to be ground floor. The land is almost flat and has a timid water line that borders the property to the west. The surroundings are marked to the south by a natural, continuous space, as if it served as a backdrop for a long lawn. To the north, the well-kept main road is directly opposite a pre-primary school building.
Project name
Casa Em Brufe
Location
Brufe, Vila nova de Famalicão, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Avelino Oliveira
Collaborators
Engº Jorge Fernandes
Structural engineer
OMEGA
Construction
Moreira Sampaio, lda
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass.
Typology
Residential › House
This is a collective housing building on a regular plot in the heart of Porto,
on Passeio de São Lázaro. The building has two fronts, one oriented for the Passeio de São Lázaro and the other to the interior. It also has a small patio that was allocated to one of the aparta- ment.
Project name
Apartamentos São Lázaro / São Lázaro Apartments
Architecture firm
Floret Arquitectura
Location
Passeio de São Lázaro, Porto, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Adriana Floret
Environmental & MEP engineering
Structural engineer
Engiworks, Consultores de Engenharia Lda
Typology
Residential › Apartment
PS House is located in a low-density urban parish on the outskirts of Braga, a city of Portugal. The land has an approximately rectangular shape, and is located in an area of accentuated slope, with unevenness and sinuous morphology. It is oriented in the North/Northwest direction and facing a small valley area, located next to a small urban agglom...
Architecture firm
Inception Architects Studio
Location
Esporões, Braga, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Interior design
Vilaça Interiores
Structural engineer
Inception Architects Studio
Construction
Manuel Antunez Construções
Typology
Residential › House
Situated in a natural shelter of a valley at the foot of the Serra da Estrela, close to the parish of Gonçalo, in a place also known locally by the name of Mora, this agricultural property has approximately 18ha of area, and is surrounded by a dense pine tree forest.
Project name
Casa NaMora (NaMora House)
Architecture firm
Filipe Pina, David Bilo
Location
Gonçalo, Guarda, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Filipe Pina, David Bilo
Design team
Filipe Pina, David Bilo, Diana Cruz
Material
Concrete, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
The new MOOD - Medicina Dentária clinic, in the city of Maia has an area of approximately 80 sqm on the ground floor with extra space in the basement connected by stairs. Two interconnecting dental offices and respective support spaces (water closet and locker room), reception and waiting spaces are intended.
Project name
MOOD Medicina Dentária
Architecture firm
Tsou Arquitectos
Location
Rua D. Júlio Tavares Rebimbas, Maia, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Tiago Tsou
Lighting
Pedro Soares da Silva, Lighting design
Material
Knauf, Bruma, Egger, Hi-macs, Polyfloor, Sanindusa, Vescom
Typology
Health › Dental Clinic
In a consolidated urban mesh, at the center of Ponta Delgada, the approach answers to a program of an extremely small single family house with two flights, where the lower floor accommodates a single social area, while the two small bedrooms are located at the upper floor. With only 4.20 meters at the front, with no space for urban pediatrician cir...
Project name
Windmill House
Architecture firm
BOX arquitectos
Location
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Barabara Morgado, Oscar Catarino
Interior design
BOX arquitectos
Structural engineer
SOPSEC Açores
Construction
Vicor caetano engenharia & construção, unipessoal, lda
Typology
Residential › House
