ABSTRACT The project is a refurbishment of a peculiar building in Praça de Dom João I, Porto. We were challenged to convert a clinic into apartments and to restore the connection with the courtyard previously covered. The concept of the interior layout is a linear simplification of the spaces.
MASS A battery of closets and shelves are placed surgically to rationalize the spaces and enclose all the services - toilette, laundry, storage and kitchen - generating a homogeneous organism that constantly dialogues with the existing building. The results of this approach are three different typologies of apartment drawn with the same concept and customized by different characters.
ABSTRACT The project is a refurbishment of a peculiar building in Praça de Dom João I, Porto. We were challenged to convert a clinic into apartments and to restore the connection with the courtyard previously covered. The concept of the interior layout is a linear simplification of the spaces.
MASS A battery of closets and shelves are placed surgically to rationalize the spaces and enclose all the services – toilette, laundry, storage and kitchen – generating a homogeneous organism that constantly dialogues with the existing building. The results of this approach are three different typologies of apartment drawn with the same concept and customized by different characters.
