Convento Das Bernardas
CONVENTO DAS BERNARDAS
Eduardo Souto de Moura
ARCHITECTS
Eduardo Souto de Moura
PHOTOGRAPHS
Luis Ferreira Alves
LOCATION
Tavira, Portugal
AREA
8164 m²
YEAR
2012
CATEGORY
Houses, Adaptive Reuse, Heritage
PROJECT
December 2006 – May 2009
COLLABORATION
Elisa Lindade, Ana Rita Alves, Ana Fortuna, Tiago Coelho, João Pedro Mendes, Patrícia Sobral, Ricardo Prata, Pedro Oliveira, Isabel Neves, Diogo Guimarães, Cláudia Romão, Jorge Domingues, Junko Imamura, Marta Pinho
COORDENATOR
Tiago Figueiredo
ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Eduardo Souto De Moura
COORDINATOR
Tiago Figueiredo
MANUFACTURERS
CS Telhas
SITE AREA
10.992m2
STRUTURAL CONSULTANTS
A2P – Estudos e Projectos, Ltda.
CLIENT
EGI – Entreposto Gestão Imobiliária, S.A.
The Patrimony is not a special type of project, it only needs an extra 20% of fees, as the framework is already there.
It does not need “intensive care”, it only needs other types of care, as each situation is a situation, which means a house.
This is not a problem for political parties, as they all seem to say the same, from left to right wing: “To defend the Patrimony …, defend the Patrimony …”.
Nor it is a source for expenditure, a nuisance, an obstacle, because if it were, it surely would not be Patrimony.
The Bernardas Convent was a Monastery, a Factory, and now is an available ruin.
Usually these “stones” are associated to programs like hostels, hotels, museums, cultural centers …; but there is not enough culture for so many available objects.
This time we made it differently …, and why not make houses?
