Paulo Martins Arquitectura: House seeks privacy while dialoguing with nature. Madalena House is located in Vila Nova de Gaia, in the parish of Madalena.
Composed of an overlapping of pure volumes, its arrangement corresponds to the desire of creating a visual barrier between living spaces and the street, allowing maximum privacy to be achieved.
Project name
Casa Madalena
Architecture firm
Paulo Martins Arquitectura
Location
Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Paulo Martins
Structural engineer
R5 Engineers
Typology
Residential › House
Casa de Sintra is located in a small wilderness facing the natural landscape within the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park.
Project name
Casa de Sintra
Architecture firm
Tsou Arquitectos
Location
Sintra, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Tiago Tsou
Interior design
Tsou Arquitectos
Material
lime paints, oak flooring, hydraulic mosaics and handmade tiles, anthracite-toned metallic
Typology
Residential › House
MASSLAB wins competition by giving a new life to Wastewater Treatment Plant with a transforming 6.800 m² roof platform with high recreational value integrated with the landscape. At the cutting edge of architecture, landscaping, and engineering, the project by MASSLAB architecture office for the new roof of Bragança's Water Treatment Plant will all...
Project name
ETAR de Bragança
Architecture firm
MASSLAB
Location
Bragança, Portugal
Principal architect
Diogo Sousa Rocha, Duarte Ramalho Fontes, Lourenço Menezes Rodrigues
Design team
Diogo Parente Mina, Amr Ragaei, Francesco Podda, Sedef Cicekdiken
Collaborators
Noraqua (Engineering), Fusão + Mino (3D Images)
Client
Câmara Municipal de Bragança
Status
Competition. 1st prize
Typology
Infrastructure, Industrial Architecture
The Interface de Transportes Lourosa – Fiães is a transport interface, located on a plot of land with around 11,500 m² on the border between these two parishes, comprises a vast parking and manoeuvring area and a support building of around 500 m², which was chosen to be located perpendicular to the road that gives it access.
Project name
Interface de Transportes Lourosa-Fiães
Architecture firm
Atelier d’Arquitectura Lopes da Costa
Location
Fiães, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
José António Lopes da Costa, Tiago Meireles
Collaborators
Rita Gonçalves
Civil engineer
PJReis – Engenharia Civil; Projedomus – Projectos e Instalações Eléctricas Inteligentes, Lda.
Landscape
MPT - Mobilidade e Planeamento do Território Lda.
Lighting
Projedomus – Projectos e Instalações Eléctricas Inteligentes, Lda
Construction
RUCE - Construção e Engenharia, Lda.
Typology
Transportation › Bus Station
With this project of a beach house with magnificent views of the Aveiro estuary (Portugal), the client wanted to satisfy their needs for a modern lifestyle, combining aesthetic quality with minimalist and contemporary design.
Project name
Moradia JD2 . JD2 house
Architecture firm
Rui Rosmaninho
Location
Ílhavo, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Rui Rosmaninho
Collaborators
Inspection: Pontocad. Acoustic Design: Diogo Portela. Fluids Engineering: Ana Gonçalves. Thermal Engineering: António Marques
Interior design
Maria Vilhena
Structural engineer
Diogo Portela
Typology
Residential › House
Originally built in the early 90s, the two-bedroom apartment has undergone an extreme renovation. Retaining the apartment's original structural integrity, which features reinforced concrete walls, our primary objective was to enhance the space's aesthetic appeal while maintaining its functional layout. The result is a seamless blend of modern elega...
Project name
Apartment ED
Architecture firm
Nuno Nascimento Architecture
Location
Cascais, Portugal
Photography
Francisco Nogueira
Principal architect
Nuno Nascimento
Design team
Nuno Nascimento Architecture
Collaborators
Nuno Nascimento, Mattia Caccin, Arcelindo Gomes, Filipa Cunha
Environmental & MEP engineering
Material
Microcement, Walnut tree wood, iron, glass
Typology
Residential › Apartment
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
