3 pieces of furniture create a home. The aim was to convert a former two floor office in a rental apartment. The proposal, which develops at the lower level, focuses on reconverting a small area, originally subdivided and dark, to accommodate the social areas of the house. The intervention... View full entry »
The intervention in the “Silence Cloister” in the Lorvão Monastery aimed to preserve and rehabilitate the existing building and to extend it for a new program: a sacred art museum with an interpretation center. More than a deep interventionist gesture, an effective rereading of... View full entry »
The access area of this site is a welcoming space as the existing buildings and stone walls convert it in a confined and shady location. As you course along westward, the slope to reach the highest part of the garden is considerable. At this point, stripped of limits, the distant mountains are... View full entry »
The swimming pool in Chamusca da Beira is located in a rural propriety whose landscape is characterized by the presence of large and small scale trees, in an orchard area with ornamental and fruit trees. The swimming pool was settled in a way that would allow to avoid changes on the terrain... View full entry »
Recently awarded the Diogo Castilho 2011 Architectural Prize, the Casa da Escrita – former Casa do Arco and residence of the poet João Cochofel – is located in the old upper part of Coimbra and is inserted in a dense urban set of predominantly residential narrow winding... View full entry »
