Places
Fernando Guerra / FG + SG
Regular Visits
Tours
Sat 17h, Architect Carlos Machado e Moura / Sun 12h, Architect Alexandra Areia
Maximum 10 people per visit
No reservation required; first-come, first-served
No wheelchair access
Photography allowed
Description
This intervention by architect Pedro Gadanho, reveals how an architecture project is a form of combat and a transformation that re-qualifies existing reality. Part of a neighbourhood with twinned houses and built on a budget, the project expanded a basic area of 40 square meters up to 110 square meters – almost with no visibility of the intervention from the exterior. It is a careful exercise that takes advantage of the interior of a confined space and very compartmentalized that now reveals space, light and perspectives non-existing before. The transmutation occurs when all existing volumes are radically taking advantage of – excavating now and then, and a chirurgical extension of the roof – and installation of some “functional parasites” (an expression of the author) that in formal and colour contrast look to solve the necessities of inner life.
Location
Rua Sr. da Boa Morte, 7
Directions: Google Maps / Apple Maps
Public Transport
Bus: STCP - 207, 500, 504