Fala

House With Glass Walls

House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio
House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio

HOUSE WITH GLASS WALLS

Fala

ARCHITECTS
Fala

ENGINEERING
Paulo Sousa

LANDSCAPE DESIGN
Oh Land

ARCHITECTURE
Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, Ahmed Belkhodja, Lera Samovich, Rute Peixoto

CONTRACTOR
Jst

PHOTOGRAPHS
Ivo Tavares Studio, Giulietta Margot

AREA
750 M²

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Porto, Portugal

CATEGORY
Houses, Renovation

An old palace-like house. Narrow and very long. Abandoned for some time.

House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio
House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio

Outside, everything had to remain the kind of the same; heritage rules dictated such fate.

In the back, the garden became a small oasis within the dense urban mesh.

Inside, the prominent staircase was revamped.

House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio
House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio
House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio

the rooms, which had little or nothing of value remaining, were depurated to their bare minimum, - their perimeter, - and filled with evenly spaced glass walls.

On a romantic background, the plan was drawn like a filmstrip: pure sequence. Still, all scenes appear at once.

House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio
House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio
House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio


House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio
House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio
House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio
House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio
House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio
House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio


House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio
House With Glass Walls
© Ivo Tavares Studio


House With Glass Walls
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House With Glass Walls
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T +351 913 134612
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Porto, Portugal