CAMÕES HOUSE
Pedro Ferreira Architecture Studio
ARCHITECTS
Pedro Ferreira Architecture Studio
MANUFACTURERS
CIN, Primus Vitória, Sanitana
YEAR
2017
PHOTOGRAPHS
João Morgado
AREA
206 m²
BUILDER
Axisarte
LEAD ARCHITECTS
Pedro Vasco Ferreira
CLIENT
Giraffe Dream
STYLING
Rute Moreda
LOCATION
Porto, Portugal
ENGINEERING
ASL & Associados
The Camões Street building introduces a paradigm shift in studio practice.
For the first time we are challenged to go beyond the architectural design and embrace the furniture and decoration project.
The building, an Art Deco-inspired house built in the second decade of the 20th century with a completely different spatial organization of the typical Porto house, was intended to become an integrated unit of tourism exploration composed of four small one-bedroom apartments, only.
The solution maintains the original plan with a lateral staircase and creates four apartments, where once the different valences of the house worked.
Contrary to previous projects, the exercise here was not to define boundaries between the present and the past, but rather by the search and reinterpretation of contemporary formal and spatial solutions of the original construction of the house.
We design hierarchical spaces, visually distinguishing the different parts of the program of each apartment, kitchen, living room, dining room, bedroom, escaping simultaneously to the compartmentalization and temptation of “open space”.
