Penafiel

How would it be if I grew up in that place? How it would be if to know the reality of a friend since I was a little kid? A generously sized field that included a wall, two staircases and granite columns, between the constructed that would serve the future, an imaginary house in their intentions, were the starting point to realize that it would have to develop housing on two platforms. Superior, as a point of arrival able to be showed to the square, leaving it breathing before a permeable seal in sight. Another Inferior, trusting privacy and silence where the word comfort  stands. Panels and doors to discover spaces, details of simplicity, views, light and visual relationships between floors complete the result. The various perspectives... More

In a housing recovery, we evaluate the spaces, shapes, functional relations and all the pathologies that the resident himself has identified during his experience. It's all there! You have to fix what is unused and thus transforming closed space into open space through new materials, call the comfort and make it unique when personalized. Tiled roofs are smashed down, opened up new spans, concrete walls are projected and curved lines are mixed with the existent broken geometry . The simplicity of the form is a reality and harmoniously emerges between the hill and lots of houses. Na recuperação de uma moradia, avaliam-se os espaços, formas, relações funcionais e todas as patologias que o próprio morador tem identificado durante a sua v... More

A haberdashery to rebuild and remodel. The concept begins on how to expose a panoply of small articles, between sewing thread, wool, fabric and others buttons. How to display such items? On a shelf? What is a shelf? 3 points withhold a plan, and this way the base is formed. Why not in cloth? A great variety of shapes and colours want to take its place. Between the warm green of nana’s living room, a plan is assumed transforming into the whitest white!   PROJECT INFO Project manager | Helder de Carvalho Architecture | Helder de Carvalho and Vasco Melo 3D | Cláudio Ferreira Lighting design | Sérgio Azevedo Graphic Design | Cláudio Ferreira and Pedro Guedes Video | Jorge Costa Photography | Jos&ea... More