Places
House 44 - Bouça Neighbourhood
Álvaro Siza e António Madureira / Patrício Guedes e Cristina Chicau (Atelier 1111)
1975 / 2019
Saturday + Sunday
Nuno Pinto
Regular Visits
Tours
Sat 17h e 17h30, Architects Patrício Guedes and Cristina Chicau / Sun 11h e 12h, Architects Patrício Guedes and Cristina Chicau (House 44) and Architect Matilde Seabra (Neighborhood)
Caleidoscópio
Maximum 7 people per visit
No reservation required; first-come, first-served
No wheelchair access
Photography allowed
Description
This house belongs to the first phase of construction of the housing complex designed in the scope of SAAL - Serviço de Apoio Ambulatório Local [Local Ambulatory Support Service]. Only later, after thirty years, the project was concluded in its totality, re-establishing the relationships of that territory with the city. Nevertheless, during those thirty years, the house endured many alterations that the new owners, also architects, tried to revert. The process was meticulous, and had as model the nearby houses, or rather, the original model with which it was possible to see, measure and copy. If, as Siza Vieira says, “to repeat is never to repeat”, can we find the differences? On the ground floor there’s a publishing house and architecture bookstore, a neighbourhood local, with books about the project where maybe it is possible to compare. It is a space “in between”, of suspension, a secret passage between Boavista Street’s urbanity and the domestic interior of the neighbourhood: on one side, we can hear the engines and horns of the cars; on the other side, silence is gradually cut by the passing of the underground.
Location
Rua da Boavista, 342 - Casa 44
Directions: Google Maps / Apple Maps
Public Transport
Subway: Linha A, B, C, E, F - Lapa
Bus: STCP - 202, 502