Hostel in Parede by Aurora Arquitectos
We were asked to consider the project as having a high level of flexibility in terms of future use. A Hostel at first, capable of becoming a single-family house with little changes.
We were asked to consider the project as having a high level of flexibility in terms of future use. A Hostel at first, capable of becoming a single-family house with little changes.
The Taipas Apartment Building is located in one of the hills that surrounds Avenida da Liberdade, very close to Miradouro São Pedro de Alcântara.
An apartment used as a leather tannerie workshop for a long time. This use aggressiveness destroyed its character and the features of the pombalino architectonic imaginary were lost.
This is an upstream project in a time when the city has been gradually emptied from its inhabitants under the pressure of tourism and real estate speculation.
The challenge would then be to combine the overall design of the apartments simultaneously with the desire to have a garden and a view in his home. The private connection between the two floors is made by elevator, while the stairs are shared with the occupants of the middle floors.
The intervention therefore had more to do with a redefinition of its programme, and ultimately the increase of appropriation possibilities of space by the client.