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- Architects: Cassandra Carvas, Miguel Gomes
- Location: Oporto, Portugal
- Area: 246.0 m2
- Project Year: 2018
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- Engineering: Jacinta Leite, Vítor Pinho, Ana Alves
- Clients: Miguel Freitas, Sara Pires
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Text description provided by the architects. The three-story house was originally built in the 1930s by the owner’s great-grandfather. The architectural intervention was a result of the house’s presented condition combined with its architectural quality.
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First Floor Plan
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Section
Therefore, the first two floors were restored due to its good state of preservation resulting in the keeping of the house’s identity; while the basement was renewed, currently assuming a contemporary aesthetics and solving a sequence of interconnected spaces in different levels.
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O mau estado de conservação do piso da cave, cuja fraca iluminação não permitia o conforto da sua utilização, foi completamente reformulado através de uma ampliação em betão aparente que respondeu às novas exigências programáticas pretendidas pelos clientes: a garagem; a lavandaria; e a sala de costura.
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A casa estabelece um diálogo entre o existente e o contemporâneo, representado através de um gesto formal: a história pousa no betão novo.
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