Condeixa House / BAAU + Diego Inglez de Souza

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Located in the old part of Condeixa-a-Nova, a historical town in the Coimbra region, this house belonged to a Portuguese family that immigrated to Brazil in the 1960s. For three decades the house was in ruins until recently a great-grandson got the opportunity of rebuilding it. The owner, an architect graduated in FAU-USP, comments on the experience of the design and building process, which ended up being an exchange of knowledge and experiences with the local architect in charge, Bernardo Amaral from BAAU, an architecture office based in Porto.

Kentaro Yamada Apartment / Bernardo Amaral Arquitectura e Urbanismo

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:00:00 +0000

This nineteenth-century townhouse placed in Porto’s historical center was recently transformed by a real estate developer into a collective housing building with 8 apartments (studios, one and two-bedroom apartments). Having kept the existing central staircase and its lightwell, each apartment has one sole front, either facing the street or the backyard. The refurbishment project focuses on one of these apartments, located on the penultimate floor and facing South. Despite its narrow lot and irregular shape, we tried to re-organize the interior space taking advantage of it’s potential for a two-bedroom apartment.

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Condeixa House / BAAU + Diego Inglez de Souza

Kentaro Yamada Apartment / Bernardo Amaral Arquitectura e Urbanismo