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Adaptive use

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about adaptive use

Project • By GV+Arquitectos • Individual Buildings

Sidonio Pais

Located on one of Lisbon's most iconic avenues, next to Eduardo VII Park—the city's large green lung—this 1947 building underwent extensive renovation, in a process that balanced heritage preservation with the functional and aesthetic updates necessary for a luxury residential building. GV+A GV+A The project integrated different areas of action: the renovation of common areas, the refurbishment of several apartments, and the parking lot. All proposals were implemented with the aim of giving the building a new lease on life, without ever losing its original identity. GV+A GV+A Classified as Municipal Heritage in the Heritage Charter, the building presented several technical and regulatory limitations that re... More

Project • By GV+Arquitectos • Towns

Loft Beato

Study developed for the creation of a house where an industrial warehouse currently exists. Our big challenge was to introduce the dense and complex program of a house in a space where we could not open spans to the sides or back. GV+A GV+A Thus, it was decided to develop courtyards that interconnect the house and where it turns in search of light and ventilation, creating games of full and empty and very rich connections between the floors. GV+A More

Project • By GV+Arquitectos • Residential Landscape

Campo De Ourique

The building marks its presence by the introduction of two elements that make up the Lisbon aesthetic: tiles and stonework.These two elements are reinterpreted and presented in a contemporary style, in contrast but in total connection with their surroundings. Fernando Guerra In an environment that presents itself stagnated in time, lacking some aesthetic weighting and urgent recovery, the intervention is an indelible mark in the city, managing to establish a dialogue between its modernity and the surroundingsInside, 3 apartments are organized around the central access nucleus, opening the social areas to the garden at the rear. Fernando Guerra More