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
When we visited it for the first time, the house was uninhibited and looked sad. The original building was lost, spreading itself in multiple annexes over the land plot. Our objective was to keep alive the memory of the main house, with some minor intervention on its exterior.
Project name
Casa em Bencanta – House in Bencanta
Architecture firm
Filipe Pina
Location
Coimbra, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Filipe Pina
Design team
André Teixeira, Diana Cruz, Filipe Pina
Interior design
Interiors Team: Rita Morais
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 SV house is located in a rural context surrounded by the typical traditional houses with sloped roofs, small windows, and wrapped by anonymous architecture.
The plot for the house is where once was the owner grandparents house, it’s small in scale but huge in stories and memories for the whole family.
Architecture firm
Spaceworkers
Location
Sobrado, Portugal
Photography
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Principal architect
Henrique Marques and Rui Dinis
Design team
João Ortigão, Marco Santos, Tiago Maciel
Collaborators
Financial director: Carla Duarte - cfo
Interior design
Olive Grey
Typology
Residential › House
The “wave Apartment” project’s main challenge was the reorganization and hierarchization of spaces.Located on the seafront, on the eighth floor of a typical 70s building, and with fantastic views. However, it did not take advantage of this due to the excessive compartmentalization that conveyed a complex environment that was difficult to interpret.
Project name
Wave-Apartment
Architecture firm
arQB arquitectura
Location
Povoa de Varzim, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Ricardo Ribeiro, Hugo Andrade
Interior design
arQB arquitectura
Environmental & MEP engineering
Lighting
arQB arquitectura
Construction
Builder Lage e Sobral
Typology
Residential › Apartment
Gouveia, located at the foothill of Serra da Estrela, has Avenida General Humberto Delgado in its toponymy, renamed after the 25th of April 1974. It is an iconic avenue at the top of the city, with a residential nature, confirmed by the magnificent houses and generous road profile, punctuated by the vast existing trees.
Project name
Apartamento em Gouveia
Architecture firm
M2 Senos Arquitetos
Location
Avenida General Humberto Delgado – Gouveia, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Ricardo Senos, Sofia Senos
Environmental & MEP engineering
Typology
Residential › Apartment
The concept for the development of the proposal was “a hug to nature”. The genesis of the proposal configures a simple volume characterized by a rectangular parallelepiped that was deformed in order to embrace the area of land-oriented south and that composes the patio. The program is organized in two floors, where the lower floor, in the basement,...
Project name
Casa De Bouro
Architecture firm
Mutant Arquitectura & Design
Location
Guardenha – Terras De Bouro, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Daniel Capela Duarte
Collaborators
Acoustic Design: Massa Cinza; Fluids Engineering: Massa Cinza; Thermal Engineering: Massa Cinza; Visual Identity: Mutant; Arquitectura & Design Illustrations: Mutant Arquitectura & Design
Interior design
Mutant Arquitectura & Design
Structural engineer
Massa Cinza
Lighting
Mutant Arquitectura & Design
Construction
Amaro Sousa Construções
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Stone
Typology
Residential › House
