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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Joao Morgado, Landscape architecture, Portugal, Vitor Vilhena, White
The site is ncluded in Estate of Arrifóias, Odemira, Alentejo, where nature and topography have very specific features. The client seeks a solution that favors housing asset values and landscaped site. Respecting the site in its entirety, the project is total involvement with the natural surroundings. Was privileged contemplation of the landscape, adapting the volumetry [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Courtyard architecture, FG+SG, Portugal, Stair, White
The 2 storey house is located on an 8 x 40 meters (24 x 120 feet) lot in the historical urban fabric of the city of Cartaxo, Portugal. It presents itself as a white volume over a transparent ground floor. A central patio and a garden allow the light to enter the different spaces of [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Courtyard architecture, Joao Morgado, Landscape architecture, Portugal, Refurbishment / Extension, White
Joao Morgado shared with us one of his latest architectural photography. Designed by Vitor Vilhena Architects, this house is located in South of Portugal, Algarve, Tavira. Here the ocean peeks, while the 400 olive trees surround the house. An old building has to give place to a new one, keeping the two volume-footprint in the soft [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Courtyard architecture, Portugal
The plot is located in the middle of a Santo Estevao, being the best views to the north with a lake and the skyline punctuated by cork oak trees. The house is organized in a compact volume of two floors, complemented by three courtyards all different in size and features. A first large courtyard, enclosed, [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: ESD design, FG+SG, Green architecture, Portugal, Stair, Swimming pool
From a small lot with it’s unique implantation, this project has raised early on a couple of challenges… and along with them, ideas emerged. The box housing deviates from the gable to create a vertical yard (glass box), with a straight ladder connecting all floors, an allusion to the famous stairs of Alfama, running between [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Bike, Portugal, White
AND-RÉ, constantly concerned with the urban mobility, environmental sustainability and urban quality lifestyle issues, enthusiastically accepted the challenge of developing the design of the Public Bikes for the Portuguese city of Vilamoura. The office was responsible for the overall design of the VILAMOURA PUBLIC BIKES, a system of shared bicycles which opened earlier this month. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: OODA, Portugal
In Benguela, the second large metropolis of Angola, on the scope of the new masterplan in development, OODA designed a 26 story high building for different types of housing units in just one piece. + Project facts BENGUELA 88 Benguela, Angola Team: Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas-Boas, Francisco Lencastre, Duarte Fontes, Francisca Santos Type: Proposal Client: [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: OODA, Portugal
One of the most demanding tasks in Porto nowadays is the intervention on the major amount of old and historical buildings of Porto downtown which are unnocupied in large percentage of the central urban fabric. This project aims that general emergency and is a recovery of a 18th century building to convert into a 18 [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Color, Portugal, Spaceworkers, White
The project consists of the renovation of an apartment that will provide housing to a young couple. The building where it belongs, is from the late 70, a time characterized by intense fragmentation and the small areas (60m2). Thus, the premise of this work was the definition of a functional layout where the internal space [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Portugal, Swimming pool
The project of a dwelling house in Mascotelos sees on its terrain a conceptual opportunity as well as a circumstance to which it cannot escape: a narrow lot with a slope of three meters between the two fronts, in a relatively rural environment. The accessibility is solved in fronts, an automotive access to the ground [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: OODA, Portugal
OODA recently has completed 227 FLAT in Porto, Portugal. In a place nearby the sea in Porto, we had the chance to design a complete transformation of a two story apartment. It was our intention to play with the light that strongly flows into the apartment merging it with new program needs. The relation between [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Art Gallery, Auditorium, Cladding, Exhibition, Joao Morgado, Portugal, Stair, White
The buildings that make up the Municipal Market and the space defined by them, commonly referred to as “the square”, a name inherited from market square are, as a unit, characteristic elements of the urban landscape of the city of Guimarães. The grounds of the old municipal market boasted a privileged and very central location [...]
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