An old bourgeois building in Porto’s city centre has been converted into a five-bedroom house. The project has two key dimensions: a careful refurbishment of the existing structure using traditional materials and construction techniques, and the insertion of new wooden volumes to house the infrastructure and service areas.
Project name
Casa Cedofeita
Architecture firm
Paulo Moreira Architectures
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Paulo Moreira
Collaborators
Hermínio Santos, Elena Borghese, Flavia Micelli, Lauranne Coornaert, Carlos Gomes, Mario Martínez
Typology
Residential › House
351 Foz Housing is a residential building with 6 apartments spread over 5 floors. Located in Porto at Foz do Douro, it has East/West orientation and is inserted in an urban area in consolidation next to the Atlantic Ocean.
Project name
351 FOZ HOUSING
Architecture firm
dEMM arquitectura
Location
R.Dr.Sousa Rosa 351, Porto, Portugal
Photography
FG+SG | Fernando Guerra
Principal architect
Paulo Fernandes Silva
Collaborators
Diana Fernandes Silva | Isabela Almeida Neves
Typology
Residential › Housing, Apartments
The IMLA House is located in Porto in Bairro da Vilarinha, a neighbourhood built during the last stage of economic housing neighbourhoods developed by the regime of Estado Novo in 1958.
Project name
Casa IMLA (IMLA House)
Architecture firm
Luppa Arquitectos (Luppa Architects)
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Francisco Mesquita Moura
Collaborators
André Machado, Gonçalo Campinho, Pedro Tavares
Construction
Builder TOPDOMUS
Typology
Residential › House
The project focused on a new flat located in Porto, facing the Douro River and with a privileged sun exposure that offers panoramic views over a unique landscape, including the symbolic Arrábida Bridge.
Project name
Panorama Douro
Architecture firm
NUTT Project
Photography
Alexander Bogorodskiy
Principal architect
Ricardo Moreira, Marta Silva
Environmental & MEP engineering
Typology
Residential › Apartment
Atelier Sergio Rebelo: Singer is an apartment renovation named after the building where it´s located. Built in 1939, in the iconic Rua de Sá da Bandeira, the Singer building is an Art Déco landmark in the heart of the city of Porto. The new design looks carefully at the original details and material palette and reinterprets them into a new layout,...
Architecture firm
Atelier Sergio Rebelo
Photography
João Boullosa and Luís Espinheira
Principal architect
Sérgio Rebelo
Design team
Tiago Carvalho, Joana Portela, Lourenço Barreto, Bruna Campos
Interior design
Sergio Rebelo
Environmental & MEP engineering
Material
Suppliers - Azulima, BRUMA, Duravit, Menu Space
Supervision
Atelier Sergio Rebelo
Visualization
Chaos Group
Tools used
AutoCAD, Corona Renderer, Autodesk 3ds Max
Typology
Residential › Apartment
In this project, as the inaugural space for a new retail footwear brand, the primary goal was to establish a unique identity through the interpretation of the brand's name, the product line to be marketed, and the target audience.
Project name
Walk With Me Store
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Romeu Ribeiro, José Pedro Marques
Collaborators
Pavlo Dobrovolskyi
Construction
Símbolos Neutros, Carpinbelo
Typology
Commercial › Retail
Casa de Lavra is the reflection of the relation that architecture can create between the space and the client. No house is the same and, in this one in particular, the architect Ricardo Azevedo realised that he drew the project “enthusiastically at the site”.
Project name
Casa de Lavra
Architecture firm
Ricardo Azevedo Arquitecto
Location
Lavra, Porto, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Ricardo Azevedo
Civil engineer
Fénix, Projetos de Eng. Civil
Typology
Residential › House
On the occasion of the second edition of Build - From High Tech to Low Tech, a fair held last September at Casa da Arquitectura in Porto, Park Associati was invited to design and build a pavilion to enhance the role that bio-based materials play in the future of architecture
Architecture firm
Park Associati
Photography
Camilla Corato
Principal architect
Filippo Pagliani, Michele Rossi
Design team
Matteo Arietti, Alessandro Bentivegna, Giulio Dini, Vincenzo Salierno
Supervision
Matteo Arietti, Vincenzo Salierno
Visualization
Martha Serra
Tools used
AutoCAD, Rhinoveros 3D, Grasshopper, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Construction
Autoconstruction Students Workshop
Material
Hempcrete Blocks
Client
Build, Casa Da Arquitectura
Typology
Pavilion, Architecture Installation
