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
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
The project had to take into account the main requirement of the local municipality: the house should be practically invisible, minimally change the local landscape and not stand out in the environment, since the cliff in which it is located is clearly visible from the downtown.
Project name
Hidden House in Portugal
Architecture firm
Kerimov Architects
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Corona Renderer
Principal architect
Shamsudin Kerimov
Visualization
Kerimov Architects
Typology
Residential › House
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
