Camões House

Camões House
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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

Camões House
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Camões House
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Camões House
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The Camões Street building introduces a paradigm shift in studio practice.

Camões House
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Camões House
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Camões House
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Camões House
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Camões House
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For the first time we are challenged to go beyond the architectural design and embrace the furniture and decoration project.

Camões House
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Camões House
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Camões House
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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.

Camões House
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Camões House
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Camões House
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Camões House
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Camões House
© João Morgado
Camões House
© João Morgado

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”.

Camões House
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