NO.40.
DM2 Housing Residential Project In Porto, Portugal, 2014
• Architects: OODA
• Location: Rua D. Manuel II, 4050 Porto, Portugal
• Design Team: Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas-Boas, Francisco Lencastre, Francisca Santos, Lourenço Menezes Rodrigues
• Area: 1100.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Joao Morgado
OODA revives dm2 housing building in historic porto
portuguese architecture studio OODA, has completed the renovation of a 20th-century building in porto’s historic center, resulting in the ‘dm2 housing’ facility. intended primarily for students or other young people, the structure contains 17 units ranging between 28 – 105 sqm, as well as a distinctive semi-grassy parking area behind. a traditional dichromatic ceramic patterning is applied throughout the design, specifically on the front façade, exterior guardrails, and backyard landscape.
the building is composed of varying apartment configurations, ranging between one and two storeys. units are finished with wood floors, white walls, and black detailing. a central corridor is treated with engineered wood panels, and large mirrored walls to elongate the space. exterior façades retain many existing materials to preserve the structure’s legacy. the project serves to renew the property’s relevance for current day living, while respecting historic traditions.
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From the architect: One of the most demanding tasks in Porto nowadays is the intervention on the major amount of old and historical buildings of Porto´s downtown. This project is a renovation of a 20th century building to convert to a 17 housing unit for students and young people in general.
The DM2 Building, located in downtown Porto (priority intervention zone), in the area of protection of the National Museum Soares dos Reis, is dating the nineteenth century and their original composition the property was intended for a single dwelling taking ornamental and construction of the whole intrinsic characteristics of the buildings at the time, both in functional layout as an ornamental and aesthetic.
However, a later change occurred in late twentieth century, the building has undergone a profound change taking place inside caused by the modification of use required.
The property became divided by several independent floors with features framed in services and trade and lower floors have been completely redesigned and trace assets were hidden in part and / or removed from the particular frames original, wood structure of the floors (now concrete) and traditional skylight at top of stairs . Indeed , the draft D. Manuel intended to rebuild the property, returning the initial function of integral housing, recovering traces of hidden identity, reinterpreting traditional elements and giving the building a new sense of contemporary housing program with a set of typologies ace current market needs. So Manuel II building as a whole distributes 17 apartments T0 and T1 types, ranging in size between 28sqm and 105sqm, spread over 5 floors and are accompanied by a landscaped patio intended for parking.
The rehabilitation now completed, restores the original residential function, underlines the unique formal and constructive characteristics and adapt to a contemporary urban reality of the city of Porto.
#restoration , #revitalization , #rehabilitation , #residential , #lighting , #interior_desigh , #stair , #Portugal , #typography
@revitalization
DM2 Housing Residential Project In Porto, Portugal, 2014
• Architects: OODA
• Location: Rua D. Manuel II, 4050 Porto, Portugal
• Design Team: Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas-Boas, Francisco Lencastre, Francisca Santos, Lourenço Menezes Rodrigues
• Area: 1100.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Joao Morgado
OODA revives dm2 housing building in historic porto
portuguese architecture studio OODA, has completed the renovation of a 20th-century building in porto’s historic center, resulting in the ‘dm2 housing’ facility. intended primarily for students or other young people, the structure contains 17 units ranging between 28 – 105 sqm, as well as a distinctive semi-grassy parking area behind. a traditional dichromatic ceramic patterning is applied throughout the design, specifically on the front façade, exterior guardrails, and backyard landscape.
the building is composed of varying apartment configurations, ranging between one and two storeys. units are finished with wood floors, white walls, and black detailing. a central corridor is treated with engineered wood panels, and large mirrored walls to elongate the space. exterior façades retain many existing materials to preserve the structure’s legacy. the project serves to renew the property’s relevance for current day living, while respecting historic traditions.
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From the architect: One of the most demanding tasks in Porto nowadays is the intervention on the major amount of old and historical buildings of Porto´s downtown. This project is a renovation of a 20th century building to convert to a 17 housing unit for students and young people in general.
The DM2 Building, located in downtown Porto (priority intervention zone), in the area of protection of the National Museum Soares dos Reis, is dating the nineteenth century and their original composition the property was intended for a single dwelling taking ornamental and construction of the whole intrinsic characteristics of the buildings at the time, both in functional layout as an ornamental and aesthetic.
However, a later change occurred in late twentieth century, the building has undergone a profound change taking place inside caused by the modification of use required.
The property became divided by several independent floors with features framed in services and trade and lower floors have been completely redesigned and trace assets were hidden in part and / or removed from the particular frames original, wood structure of the floors (now concrete) and traditional skylight at top of stairs . Indeed , the draft D. Manuel intended to rebuild the property, returning the initial function of integral housing, recovering traces of hidden identity, reinterpreting traditional elements and giving the building a new sense of contemporary housing program with a set of typologies ace current market needs. So Manuel II building as a whole distributes 17 apartments T0 and T1 types, ranging in size between 28sqm and 105sqm, spread over 5 floors and are accompanied by a landscaped patio intended for parking.
The rehabilitation now completed, restores the original residential function, underlines the unique formal and constructive characteristics and adapt to a contemporary urban reality of the city of Porto.
#restoration , #revitalization , #rehabilitation , #residential , #lighting , #interior_desigh , #stair , #Portugal , #typography
@revitalization
NO.75.
DAMIÃO DE GÓIS MUSEUM / SPACEWORKERS
• Architects: SPACEWORKERS
• Location: Igreja da Nossa Senhora da Várzea (Church of Our Lady of Várzea), Alenquer, Portugal
• Construction Area: 2500 m2
Project Year: 2017
Area: 175m2
Building Materials: Stone
From the architect: “Intervening in an existing building is in itself a good challenge, when we have added centuries of history to the pre-existence, the challenge is even greater. The intervention focuses on the creation of an exhibition structure, alluding to the life and historical legacy of Damião de Gois, inside an old, restored church in Alenquer. The church, now emptied of this function, is now a "container" space with its own identity, marked by the geometry of its vaulted ceilings and the texture of its brick walls, with great plastic value.
The proposal seeks precisely to value the plastic characteristics of space and minimize its impact on pre-existence, respecting the existing, moving away from the walls, seeking a central position in space, assuming a geometry that is familiar to the building, originated by an offset to the shapes of the ceiling and walls, capturing the configuration of the void that exists in a kind of dark colored, fragmented nucleus that receives and organizes the exhibition and the visitors.
This nucleus, although fragmented, gives the visitor an idea of virtual continuity, where their voids are understood as moments of pause and contemplation of the existent and as moments of penetration inside the nucleus, exploring this ancestral relationship of interior and exterior, which has fascinated us since the beginning of the project.
The exhibition space is assumed as a delicate black element that invites its discovery and that stands out from the remaining chromatism of the existing space, without ever overlapping it but without losing its spatial characteristics.”
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The museum is housed in the restored Church of our Lady of the Valley. The architects decided to give the beautifully aged brick walls their due prominence and kept the exhibit panels away from them by creating a simple tunnel with a series of black arches.
The sleek, matte black arches contrast with the surrounding surfaces without appearing glaringly modern or intrusive.
The arches seem to imply a route or a passage and they also have the feel of a protective canopy or container. The visitor never feels trapped in or constricted as daylight filters in through the openings between the panels.
In addition to restoring and protecting the heritage of the area, the museum aims to increase tourism in the area especially from countries where de Góis travelled, including Belgium, Holland, France and Germany. Tuija Seipell.
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The restoration works of the Church of Santa Maria da Várzea in the town of Alenquer were started at the beginning of August, at the culmination of a project that began in 2013 with an application to the Judicial Network.
For decades the Church of Várzea has been ruined and disaffected, and is now owned by Alenquer, and after restoration works, the Damião de Goes Museum and Victims of the Inquisition will be housed. Funds for the recovery of this heritage come from an application from the NSRF and from a cooperation protocol from the Government of Norway, EEA Grants.
The central nave will be dedicated to the victims of the Inquisition, and the chancel to the humanist Damião de Goes. The building next to the chapel and currently in ruins will receive administrative services, toilets, and access to the choir, and to the tower. Also the exterior will be the target of intervention, including the construction of an amphitheater, taking advantage of the natural slope of the terrain.
#Portugal , #museum , #interior_design , #church
@revitalization
DAMIÃO DE GÓIS MUSEUM / SPACEWORKERS
• Architects: SPACEWORKERS
• Location: Igreja da Nossa Senhora da Várzea (Church of Our Lady of Várzea), Alenquer, Portugal
• Construction Area: 2500 m2
Project Year: 2017
Area: 175m2
Building Materials: Stone
From the architect: “Intervening in an existing building is in itself a good challenge, when we have added centuries of history to the pre-existence, the challenge is even greater. The intervention focuses on the creation of an exhibition structure, alluding to the life and historical legacy of Damião de Gois, inside an old, restored church in Alenquer. The church, now emptied of this function, is now a "container" space with its own identity, marked by the geometry of its vaulted ceilings and the texture of its brick walls, with great plastic value.
The proposal seeks precisely to value the plastic characteristics of space and minimize its impact on pre-existence, respecting the existing, moving away from the walls, seeking a central position in space, assuming a geometry that is familiar to the building, originated by an offset to the shapes of the ceiling and walls, capturing the configuration of the void that exists in a kind of dark colored, fragmented nucleus that receives and organizes the exhibition and the visitors.
This nucleus, although fragmented, gives the visitor an idea of virtual continuity, where their voids are understood as moments of pause and contemplation of the existent and as moments of penetration inside the nucleus, exploring this ancestral relationship of interior and exterior, which has fascinated us since the beginning of the project.
The exhibition space is assumed as a delicate black element that invites its discovery and that stands out from the remaining chromatism of the existing space, without ever overlapping it but without losing its spatial characteristics.”
—---
The museum is housed in the restored Church of our Lady of the Valley. The architects decided to give the beautifully aged brick walls their due prominence and kept the exhibit panels away from them by creating a simple tunnel with a series of black arches.
The sleek, matte black arches contrast with the surrounding surfaces without appearing glaringly modern or intrusive.
The arches seem to imply a route or a passage and they also have the feel of a protective canopy or container. The visitor never feels trapped in or constricted as daylight filters in through the openings between the panels.
In addition to restoring and protecting the heritage of the area, the museum aims to increase tourism in the area especially from countries where de Góis travelled, including Belgium, Holland, France and Germany. Tuija Seipell.
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The restoration works of the Church of Santa Maria da Várzea in the town of Alenquer were started at the beginning of August, at the culmination of a project that began in 2013 with an application to the Judicial Network.
For decades the Church of Várzea has been ruined and disaffected, and is now owned by Alenquer, and after restoration works, the Damião de Goes Museum and Victims of the Inquisition will be housed. Funds for the recovery of this heritage come from an application from the NSRF and from a cooperation protocol from the Government of Norway, EEA Grants.
The central nave will be dedicated to the victims of the Inquisition, and the chancel to the humanist Damião de Goes. The building next to the chapel and currently in ruins will receive administrative services, toilets, and access to the choir, and to the tower. Also the exterior will be the target of intervention, including the construction of an amphitheater, taking advantage of the natural slope of the terrain.
#Portugal , #museum , #interior_design , #church
@revitalization
NO.78.
Outdoor Altar in the Prayer Area of Fatima / Paula Santos
• Architects: Paula Santos
• Location: Fátima, 2495 Fátima, Portugal
• Project Year: 2016
client: Santuário de Fátima
The Centenary of the Apparitions of Fatima and the visit of the Pope Francisco on the 13th of May 2017, justified the project and the construction of the new Outdoor Altar in the Prayer Area of Fatima, a permanent work for outdoor ceremonies.
The exterior Outdoor Altar includes in the lower floor a Sacristy, a Chapel of the Sacred Reserve and support areas for the priests.
The project also allowed the mobility for the disabled to the old Basilica, the improvement of the existing colonnades and the redesign of the staircase to access all religious structures.
A fiberglass cover coated on both sides was studied by the team project with INEGI. The cover has 600 m2 of suspended area, supported only by a block of white concrete within which are all technical and vertical accesses.
The building's architecture has the intervention of Filip Moroder for the Image of Christ, João Mendes Ribeiro for the liturgical places and Fernanda Fragateiro for the sculpture Matéria Espiritual.
The architectural intervention has a grand scenographic importance in a sacred place and we intended it to result sublime and harmonious in the vast praying square.
Prayer Area
The Prayer Area is a large square, bordered by leafy trees in northern and southern sides and outlined in eastern and western sides by the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima and the Basilica of the Holy Trinity, respectively. It is a place that invites us to interiority and prayer and brings together large assemblies during celebrations.
The new presbytery, dedicated on May 2016, can be used by a total of 120 concelebrants and is the project of the greek architect Alexandros Tombazis, the very same designer of the Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity.
Its construction, which lasted for more than one year, included the building of a second underground floor, mainly intended to support services, Tabernacle and Sacristy. It has direct access to the presbytery floor by stairways and by lift.
The new presbytery is now closer to the Prayer Area, which meant a reformulation of the staircases, keeping the same time of limestone used in the Shrine.
#Portugal , #chapel , #outdoor , #religious_place , #fiberglass , #square
@revitalization
Outdoor Altar in the Prayer Area of Fatima / Paula Santos
• Architects: Paula Santos
• Location: Fátima, 2495 Fátima, Portugal
• Project Year: 2016
client: Santuário de Fátima
The Centenary of the Apparitions of Fatima and the visit of the Pope Francisco on the 13th of May 2017, justified the project and the construction of the new Outdoor Altar in the Prayer Area of Fatima, a permanent work for outdoor ceremonies.
The exterior Outdoor Altar includes in the lower floor a Sacristy, a Chapel of the Sacred Reserve and support areas for the priests.
The project also allowed the mobility for the disabled to the old Basilica, the improvement of the existing colonnades and the redesign of the staircase to access all religious structures.
A fiberglass cover coated on both sides was studied by the team project with INEGI. The cover has 600 m2 of suspended area, supported only by a block of white concrete within which are all technical and vertical accesses.
The building's architecture has the intervention of Filip Moroder for the Image of Christ, João Mendes Ribeiro for the liturgical places and Fernanda Fragateiro for the sculpture Matéria Espiritual.
The architectural intervention has a grand scenographic importance in a sacred place and we intended it to result sublime and harmonious in the vast praying square.
Prayer Area
The Prayer Area is a large square, bordered by leafy trees in northern and southern sides and outlined in eastern and western sides by the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima and the Basilica of the Holy Trinity, respectively. It is a place that invites us to interiority and prayer and brings together large assemblies during celebrations.
The new presbytery, dedicated on May 2016, can be used by a total of 120 concelebrants and is the project of the greek architect Alexandros Tombazis, the very same designer of the Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity.
Its construction, which lasted for more than one year, included the building of a second underground floor, mainly intended to support services, Tabernacle and Sacristy. It has direct access to the presbytery floor by stairways and by lift.
The new presbytery is now closer to the Prayer Area, which meant a reformulation of the staircases, keeping the same time of limestone used in the Shrine.
#Portugal , #chapel , #outdoor , #religious_place , #fiberglass , #square
@revitalization