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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...
Project name
Prazeres 37
Architecture firm
Fragmentos
Location
Lisboa, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
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.
Project name
RCR House
Architecture firm
VISIOARQ Arquitectos
Location
Anadia, Portugal
Photography
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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
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
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
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
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.
Project name
Foco
Architecture firm
OODA Architecture
Location
Porto, Portugal
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, Hand Drawing
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
Location
Porto, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio