An apartment located on the 1st floor of a multi-family housing block representative of the modernist architecture of the 50s in the city of Porto. Exaggeratedly subdivided, disproportionately dimensioned, and functionally inadequate for nowadays, this space needed an organizational readjustment. Furthermore, it was clear an overlapping of constructive layers (pavements, coverings, ceilings and window frames), that disfigured the space asking for a depuration work.
The space had two elements that seemed important to reclaim: The first element was a structural mesh of tall beams apparently misadjusted with the interior organization, a consequence of the unusual typological distribution of the building (with apartments of larger areas on the first floor and smaller áreas in the 4 floors above). The second element that was materially and formally worthy of preservation is the pine wood floor parquet in a herringbone pattern - some parts covered with new pavements, other parts completely replaced.
In the first phase, the space was reorganized and redimensioned: We totally reconfigured the kitchen and bathrooms; general layouts were completely redefined – in the social area we created a wid-
er, space where before stood four divisions, and in the private area we defined a master bedroom with a bathroom and two secondary ones.
In a second phase – more empirical and in the result of demolitions - we clarified the intervention in correlation with the layout of the beams, whether released and disconnected from them, evoking the pre-existing compartments, or guided by them in their new redistribution.
Edificación
Porto, Portugal
Fecha Inicio: Junio 2014
Fecha Terminación: Junio 2015
Superficie construída: 120
Fotografía:
José Campos
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