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Oporto Loft | The Nest

The Nest is an inner recovery of a space originally designed for studio or workshop. Since its genesis [1959-1963], this space was used as a photographic studio, rehearsal room, and others ... 

The program was compatible a workspace, the "hoffice", a small crafts workshop, and a room for meditation, yoga and massage, able to develop an indivisible relationship with space for second homes [alcove and kitchen], a space with just over 60.0 m2. 

The approach to design and construction was largely developed in self-built system. Guided by the enthusiasm to explore and overcome the challenges of renewal, we developed an idea of appropriation of space, which retain a reading of the pre-existence, capable of dealing peacefully with the luminosity of wood and cork chromatism. 

The aim was to learn, putting in place a sustainable design of architecture in construction, using natural raw materials, mainly wood and cork, that an articulated but also something primary form, develop a living space warm, serene and open, within the architectural space now renovated. 

The Nest project took place within a great love, full of complicity, dedication and companionship, is a work of joint authorship, two eternal companions who now devise other destinations. For all I am eternally grateful to you, Alexandra.

 
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Status: Built
Location: Porto, PT
Firm Role: Architect
Additional Credits: Architecture:
Ricardo Dias Pinto
Collaboration Alexandra Pimentel Teixeira

construction:
Ricardo Dias Pinto, Alexandra Pimentel Teixeira and Rui Ferreira
Collaboration of Paulo Pinto, Vitor Castro, Rui Pinto and Barbara Ferreira

Photography:
Filipe Brandão www.flickr.com/photos/mustha

Materials and Companies involved:
Irmãos Craveiro, Lda http://irmaoscraveiro.com.pt/pt
JPS Cork http://www.jpscorkgroup.com/
Biofa http://www.biofa.pt/
Monteiros http://www.monteiros.pt/