Miragaia Residential Complex
MIRAGAIA RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX
Less is More Architects
ARCHITECTS
Less is More Architects
CLIENT
VontadExpressa Promoção e Gestão Imobiliária Lda.
PHOTOGRAPHS
José Campos
LEAD ARCHITECTS
Francisco Vieira de Campos, Cristina Guedes
SAFETY & SECURITY
Maria Da Luz Santiago
ELECTRICAL
Maria da Luz Santiago
MANUFACTURERS
Carpintaria Miguel Batista
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Enescoord - Coordenação e Gestão de Projectos e Obras Lda
MECHANICAL
André Borges
DESIGN TEAM
Cristina Maximino, Gonçalo Castro, Inês Mesquita, Ricardo Medina, José Pedro Rocha, Ines Marinho Batista, Adrián Sifres Ortega, Cláudia Costa
HIDRAULIC
Fernanda Valente
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Afaconsult - Engineering Projects
STRUCTURES
Eulália Soares
LOCATION
Oporto, Portugal
SECURITY
Afaconsult - Engineering Projects
CATEGORY
Apartments
AREA
1541 m²
YEAR
2018
Text description provided by the architects
The XIII century building, with a facade of great architectural value, is composed of 4 floors and the top floor is a ruin. The interior is partially destroyed leaving only the facade.
The proposal contemplates the consolidation of the main ruin facade. The top floor is rebuilt with contemporary lightweight materials because of the difficulty of replacing the existing stonework with certain wear and tear of the time.
The neutral and abstract character of the volumes allows detaching the existing buildings and richness of the stonework that they contain. We choose a floor distribution in the gallery following the tradition of using the exterior surroundings.
The buildings open themselves to the hill, forcing an urban life and a great ambiguity between public and private spaces. The interiors are organized to the best possible orientation – north, south.
Therefore, the distribution gallery is presented at the north as well as the rooms. Every living room is oriented to the southwest. The new buildings start from the presupposition of a coincidence between construction and composition.
The facade reflects and is evidence of the lot´s narrow subdivision. The new buildings would be built in reinforced concrete.
Local light materials would be used like wood, iron, slate, corrugated sheet, tile in the fill of the vain and gables treatment. The building both neutral and silent, to evidence the set where it's inserted, with no language, no time…
