Places
Arménio Teixeira
Tours
Visit accompanied by the architect Luísa Penha
Maximum 10 people per visit
No reservation required; first-come, first-served
No wheelchair access
Photography allowed
Description
The new buildings in this square witness the fact that “all art is a balance between two opposites” (Cesare Pavese). Luísa Penha’s proposal is unexpected – two buildings facing the street formally very distinct for the same lot – a gable construction that could be pre-existing (indoor pool) and an exposed concrete volume with a contemporary expression and design (two houses). Because of that, the result is a surprising integration in the square that in part comes from this strategy of fragmentation but also because the careful and precise design of the volumes is the result of an attentive reading of the metrics, compositional and cadastral, of what surrounds it (which, in reality, also corresponds to the usual width of a lot in Porto). The project prolongs to the inside this historical and architectural reading – and resumes the classic themes of Porto’s bourgeois house like, amongst other things, the main staircase, the different treatment of the front/back and the receded roof window.
Location
Praça de Liége, 255
Directions: Google Maps / Apple Maps
Public Transport
Subway: STCP - 200, 202, 203, 204, 500
Bus: STCP - 200, 202, 203, 204, 500