Places
Casa da Arquitectura
Regular Visits
Tours
Sat 12h30, Architect Cristina Chicau / Sat 16h, Joana Fins Faria
Maximum 10 people per visit
No reservation required; first-come, first-served
No wheelchair access
Photography not allowed
Description
Inside a centennial warehouse, in the Orient part of Porto where on the second half of the 19th century, a great number of factories and offices were concentrated, there is a special space: a “house”. The owner, a cultural consultant that explores the interconnection between human potential and the arts of expression, aesthetics and interiority, finds here its place and a place to work. To maintain the identity and the memory of its pre-existence and simultaneously create a new typology, made the author rehabilitate the whole warehouse (façades, roof and structure), and in its interior, a house was built from scratch (with gable roof, a patio and garden). The building inside is constructed in apparent concrete, contrasting with the stone masonry of the warehouse, a similar intervention to the one Alberti did in the Tempio Malatestiano, five hundred years ago. The patio is a space “in between” (exterior to the house but interior to the warehouse), making the transition between the darker insides (with zenithal light here and there) and the open-air garden. It is a double shelter, for the body (and the inside of the body) to inhabit.
Location
Rua de Miraflor, 129
Directions: Google Maps / Apple Maps
Public Transport
Subway: Linha A, B, C, E, F - Campanhã
Bus: STCP - 205, 206, 207, 400, zr
Train: Campanhã