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Architects: OODA
- Area: 2500 m²
- Year: 2014
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Photographs:Joao Morgado
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Text description provided by the architects. LOIOS contains 18 housing units for tourists and students in a 1500sqm building within a centralized location in Porto.
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One of the most demanding tasks in Porto nowadays is the intervention on the major amount of older and historical buildings of Porto downtown which are unoccupied in a large percentage of the central urban fabric. Responsible management of these structures can positively affect the built environment, conservation of resources with social and economic benefits.
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Therefore the historic elevations were restored and the ground-level retail will be topped with five stories divided into four stacked residences.
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Ensuring the spaces fulfill the needs of modern-day tenants, a large-scale modular furniture piece will integrate a kitchen, storage, seating, bed, and bathroom.
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Traditional ceramic paintings on church panels will be turned into digitized images and applied as a perforated surface. Additional measures include paints, waxes, and varnishes with vegetable bases, natural resins, and mineral pigments.
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