Casa do Conto / Pedra Líquida
© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
Architect: Pedra Líquida
Location: Rua da Boavista, 713, Porto, Portugal
Project Team: Alexandra Grande, Nuno Grande, Daniela Coutinho, Joana Couceiro, João Crisóstomo, Luís Sobral, Gerson Rei, Ivo Lapa, Rui Baltazar
Grafic design: R2
Consultants: AB Projectos, Gatengel, GET, ALFA Engenharia
Client: Casa do Conto, Arts and Residence
Construction Company: Pedras de Ronfos
Project Year: 1st phase 2008-2009, 2nd phase 2009-2011
Photographs: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
Casa do Conto (House of Tales) was born three years ago, giving rise to a unique project within the Oporto’s growing hotel industry. Unfortunately a fatal fire in March 2009 interrupted this process but not the collective will to complete the project. And many were those who generously honored and supported it. The House rises now fully rehabilitated, once again seeking its exclusivity within the usual Oporto’s hotel offer, which is becoming gradually generic and impersonal.
© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
Casa do Conto embodies a unique story of life, which is, after all, the history of the city itself. The House highlights Oporto’s XIX century domestic architecture, solemn and vertical, carved by the scars of a time that mediates its decline and rebirth, the memory of the past and the desire for the future, the granite stone of the old facades and the new concrete of staircases and ceilings. It is, indeed, a kind of “fossil architecture” that comes to life.
© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
Graved by various texts, in low relief, covering six separate rooms, these ceilings narrate the changes undergone by the concept of “house” and of this house in particular. Created by different authors, related to the city and its architecture – Filipa Leal, Alvaro Domingues, Jorge Figueira, André Tavares, Nuno Grande and Pedro Bandeira – the six “tales” were spatially distributed by the architects collective Pedra Líquida (Liquid Stone) – authors of the renewal project -, and graphically imagined by the creative designers of R2 Design. The solution, which marks the difference in personality of each space has already been awarded with the 2011 SEGD Design Awards, and has received the Golden Award of the European Design Awards in the category “Signs & Displays”.
© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
Casa do Conto offers an innovative hotel concept – arts & residence – providing a personalized style of residence for guests who wish to combine resting with the enjoyment of Oporto’s cultural offer, or for those who wish to create, display or even debate art working. For this reason, Casa do Conto offers a regular schedule of cultural events, involving different artists, designers, curators, groups and art institutions.
Text provided by Pedra Líquida.
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interesting house, i especially like the ceiling in the bedroom…it’s a nice touch to something that could otherwise remain plain and boring.
I’m blown away by this. It’s incredible, the concreters who created this are true craftsmen.
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4:00 PM Oct 28th
Hotel Casa Do Condo. Porto, Portugal. Pedra Líquida arquitectura. http://t.co/h6jQuApR
10:04 AM Oct 30th
Antología del encofrado en Oporto. No por casualidad es obra de un estudio llamado Pedra Líquida. No se pierdan… http://t.co/HNIvExhD
10:41 AM Oct 30th
Antología del encofrado en Oporto. No por casualidad es obra de un estudio llamado Pedra Líquida. No se pierdan… http://t.co/HNIvExhD