An inner city hideaway. The complex was born from a project to recover and enhance the heritage of a vacant building with an extensive curtilage area. In this latter area, a single independent family housing unit was built, which we present here as Casa Prazeres 37. One of the main concerns of the design was to develop a volume as an anonymous elem...
Architecture firm
Fragmentos
Location
Lisboa, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Structural engineer
Fragmentos GLFV
Landscape
Polen Land Design
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
Light, intimacy, balance and contemplation of the outdoor spaces are some of RCR House striking features - a haven located in a residential area of Anadia, in central Portugal.
Architecture firm
VISIOARQ Arquitectos
Location
Anadia, Portugal
Photography
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Principal architect
Vicente Gouveia, Pedro Afonso, Nuno Poiarez
Material
Concrete, Glass, Steel, Wood
Typology
Residential › House
Nature’s exuberant presence throughout Minho was a structuring axis for the conceptual development of these stables. The project, in a traditional Minho property, is marked by a strong natural component in the region where the expression of vegetation, natural and with human intervention, is visually predominant.
Project name
Coudelaria MG
Architecture firm
VISIOARQ Arquitectos
Location
Vila Nova de Famalicão, Braga, Portugal
Photography
Maria João Gala
Principal architect
Vicente Gouveia, Pedro Afonso, Nuno Poiarez
Landscape
VISIOARQ Arquitectos
Construction
Telhabel Construções S.A.
Typology
Education › Stud Farm
Located in one of the most recognizable points of the city of Matosinhos, this housing complex with 80 apartments distributed over two towers of 10 floors seeks to take full advantage of the privileged views of the location.
Project name
Broadway Gardens
Architecture firm
Paulo Merlini Architects
Location
Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, SketchUp
Principal architect
Paulo Merlini
Typology
Residential/ Appartment
Set of villas located next to a pine forest.
The volumes develop perpendicularly to the road, facing south. They land along the natural slope of the land, the garage, with only one floor, finishes the volumetry.
The house basis begins as a wall, then surrounds the main volume and finally, again as a wall embraces the garage, giving a sense of c...
Project name
Houses in the pine forest
Architecture firm
PK Arquitetos
Location
Estoril, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Francisca Magalhães Ramalho
Structural engineer
ATPI Engenharia
Construction
API Construções
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
Inserted in the qualified and consolidated structure of the Parque Residencial da Boavista of 1959 by the architects Agostinho Ricca, João Serôdio and José Carlos Magalhães Carneiro, the design requires the appropriation and formal abstraction of the single-family house existing in the plot.
Architecture firm
OODA Architecture
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, Hand Drawing
Principal architect
OODA Architecture
Collaborators
A3R, TEKK, Fluimep, Amplitude Acoustics
Typology
Residential › Housing
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
