Social Center Vilar Do Paraíso Requalification

Social Center Vilar Do Paraíso Requalification
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SOCIAL CENTER VILAR DO PARAÍSO REQUALIFICATION

éOp – arquitectura e design

ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
Vitor Pimentão

COLLABORATOR
Vasco Giesta, Vasco Novais

PHOTOGRAPHS
Nelson Garrido

AREA
350 m²

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Vila Nova De Gaia, Portugal

CATEGORY
Community Center

The São Pedro de Vilar do Paraíso Social Center is a social institution of solidarity, located in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. The institution plays a determining role in the community guaranteeing the most different social responses for community and old / senior people.

Social Center Vilar Do Paraíso Requalification
© Nelson Garrido
Social Center Vilar Do Paraíso Requalification
© Nelson Garrido

The requalification of the São Pedro de Vilar do Paraíso Social Center, intends to reorganize the space and services, endow the building with more values.

The building known as the "Casa das Freiras" Palace with more than 100 years, suffered rehabilitation works in the different floors, to adjust the community needs, giving the spaces a multifunctionality that provokes a big dynamics to the institution.

Social Center Vilar Do Paraíso Requalification
© Nelson Garrido
Social Center Vilar Do Paraíso Requalification
© Nelson Garrido

This freedom of space, takes the São Pedro de Vilar do Paraíso Social Center a place to improve creativity and social entrepreneurship.

A promising space, not only for its spatiality but also for the amazing of its inclined planes, a consequence of the narrative of the roof gaps, taking advantage of the exiting elements.

Social Center Vilar Do Paraíso Requalification
© Nelson Garrido
Social Center Vilar Do Paraíso Requalification
© Nelson Garrido

It is the roof gaps that mark their own identity of space, complaining their spatiality and textures of the material in theirs original state. The classic details of wood and stone are a testimony of the story of this building.

The project aimed to create new spaces with a capacity for change, where the creativity of its users can be put into practice. An accomplice and inspiring space, able to improve a visionary spirit to serv the common welfare, inside the concept and history of this institution.

It was intended to achieve a free space and not static, mutated and creative, planned for the people and thought for the future. These are the goals for the architecture project for this institution.

Social Center Vilar Do Paraíso Requalification
© Nelson Garrido
Social Center Vilar Do Paraíso Requalification
© Nelson Garrido


Social Center Vilar Do Paraíso Requalification
© Nelson Garrido


Social Center Vilar Do Paraíso Requalification
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Social Center Vilar Do Paraíso Requalification
Roof plan


Social Center Vilar Do Paraíso Requalification
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