Casa 1 | BAK GORDON arquitectos
Porto / Portugal / 2018
House 1 is a rehabilitation project for a Villa from the end of the 19th century, in Oporto city, close to the seafront. It is a construction of bourgeois origin, located on a plot with about 2200 m2.
The House, which originally had two noble floors, an attic and a basement, has now four inhabited floors with generous openings to the outside. Where there used to be a basement, there is now a family room, in direct relation to the outside, through the proposed patio, a kind of garden inside the garden.
The rehabilitation and restoration work sought to enhance the existing spaces, replacing some functions, but, above all, sequencing the experience of spaces. New venetian terrazzo floors, interior walls in tadelakt and exterior window frames in oxidized brass, structure the palette of materials used in this renovation.
The design of the garden, in its many details, constitutes a landscape of distension for the life of the house. The House itself, which has always been covered with ivy on its exterior walls, should be covered again when it grows, after the intervention that has been now completed.*
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Casa 1 é um projeto de reabilitação de uma Villa do final do século XIX, na cidade do Porto, próxima da orla marítima. Trata-se de uma construção de origem burguesa, implantada num lote de terreno com cerca de 2200 m2.
A Casa, que originalmente tinha dois pisos nobres, sotão e cave, tem agora quatro pisos habitados com francas relações com o exterior. Onde antes existia uma cave, existe agora uma sala de família, em relação direta com o exterior, através do novo pátio proposto, espécie de jardim dentro do jardim.
O trabalho de reabilitação e restauro tratou de valorizar os espaços já existentes, recolocando algumas funções, mas sobretudo sequenciando a experiência dos espaços.
Novos pavimentos em terrazzo veneziano e madeira, paredes interiores em tadelakt e caixilharia exterior em latão oxidado, estruturam a paleta de materiais convocados nesta reabilitação.
O desenho do jardim, nos seus múltiplos detalhes, constitui uma paisagem de distensão para a vida da casa. A própria Casa, que sempre foi recoberta de heras nas suas paredes exteriores, deverá voltar a sê-lo quando estas crescerem após a intervenção que agora se concluiu.
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Architecture. Ricardo Bak Gordon
Architecture Coordination. Daniela Cunha
Collaboration. Catarina Farinha, Tânia Correia
Site location. Oporto, Portugal
Client. Private
Contractor. Matriz LDA – Sociedade de Construções
Supervision and Project Management. Buildgest
Consultants. Atelier BBV (Landscape architecture); A400 – Projetistas e Consultores de Engenharia, LDA (Foundations and Structure / Hydraulics / Gas Installations / Electrics, Telecommunications, Security / Mechanics and HVAC / Acoustics / Thermic )
Areas. 530 m2 construction area
Date. Project 2018-19 [Works completion 2021]
Photographs. Francisco Nogueira
House 1 is a rehabilitation project for a Villa from the end of the 19th century, in Oporto city, close to the seafront. It is a construction of bourgeois origin, located on a plot with about 2200 m2. The House, which originally had two noble floors, an attic and a basement, has now four inhabited floors with generous openings to the outside. Where there used to be a basement, there is now a family room, in direct relation to the outside, through the proposed patio, a kind of garden inside the...
- Year 2018
- Work started in 2019
- Work finished in 2018
- Status Completed works
- Type Interior Design / Custom Furniture / Recovery/Restoration of Historic Buildings / Building Recovery and Renewal
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