House 1 Porto
Ricardo Bak Gordon
ARCHITECT
Ricardo Bak Gordon
FIRE PROTECTION
A400 – Projetistas E Consultores De Engenharia
PROJECT COORDINATION
Daniela Cunha
COLLABORATORS
Catarina Farinha, Tânia Correia
ACOUSTICS
A400 – Projetistas E Consultores De Engenharia
THERMICAL PROJECT
A400 – Projetistas E Consultores De Engenharia
MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION
Buildgest
STRUCTURAL PROJECT
A400 – Projetistas E Consultores De Engenharia
CONTRACTOR
Matriz Lda – Sociedade De Construções
INSTALLATIONS
A400 – Projetistas E Consultores De Engenharia
YEAR
2021
LOCATION
Porto, Portugal
CATEGORY
Houses, Renovation
Text description provided by architect.
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 the 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.
