Apartment in Guarda – InStone by DRK Atelier
In an early seventies building, we found an uncharacterized apartment in Guarda, too compartmentalized and with little natural light.
Ivo Tavares Studio is a Creative Studio focused on creating photos and video to let your company grow the relationship with your consumers.
From an early age, the various artistic expressions fascinate me mainly the visual, today I’m an Architectural photographer and teacher at the Portuguese Institute of Photography of Porto, I am passionate about architecture and its various forms of representation and interpretation. Along with architecture photography I specialized in hotel photography and interiors.
I was invited to lectures and open classes, I divide my time to photograph, to travel and to enjoy the small moments with the family. I created the platform Archmov, pioneer in video architecture in Portugal. Today I have architectural photography projects published in several platforms of the specialty, as well as in national and international publications of the area.
LOCATION: Porto, Portugal
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In an early seventies building, we found an uncharacterized apartment in Guarda, too compartmentalized and with little natural light.
From the road you can see the house, on a small hill, with a dark silhouette in sharp contrast to its natural environment, offering a wide view over Santo Tirso.
By disassembling the poor materials of the old facade we discovered that the house was actually made up of three small houses built according to the needs of the former owner.
The newly renovated building is part of a set of constructions ordered to be built by the company Fábrica de Cerâmica das Devesas, in Porto, which functioned as a warehouse and showcase for the various products manufactured at the time by the same company.
The aim of the project was to rebuild and expand a residential building on one of the most emblematic streets in Porto, Rua Miguel Bombarda, where several art galleries are located.
At the restaurant, we decided to take advantage of the back view over the ria through large spans with a minimalist expression to maintain a cleaner panoramic view.
The project approach to the remodeling accommodation units, is based on two remarkable pre-existing principles.
Project: Restaurante Barril Architects: Paulo Merlini Arquitectos Location: Valongo, Gondomar, Portugal Year: 2020 Area: 150.00 square meters Photo Credits: Ivo Tavares Studio Owner of a house with more than nine years of existence and armed with an entrepreneurial spirit that is natural to him, the client approached us with the problems well outlined. He intended