Graça 117 – Rehabilitation Project by Pedro Carrilho
Graça 117 is one of the rehabilitation projects that contributed to the valorization and preservation of the Graça’s street urban unity, in Lisbon, as a part of a set of buildings with history.
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Graça 117 is one of the rehabilitation projects that contributed to the valorization and preservation of the Graça’s street urban unity, in Lisbon, as a part of a set of buildings with history.
In a street marked by a vast set of housings for the working class, the sense of repetition and systematization of the construction process is a strong characteristic of this street.
Pedro Daniel Santos, the architect of this rehabilitation project, embraced the adventure of preserving the character, beauty, history and brand of the building, adapting it, modernizing it, empowering it to live new stories
TILT house is the concept that generates the proposal and characterizes the 3-axis rotation movement of the volume that constitutes the social area of the house.
This villa is located in a residential area of São João da Madeira city in Portugal. Access to the property is via a trough steep slope street that the design of the entrance gate seeks to tame.
The project demolishes the additions, replacing them for a single qualified and integrated action, able to solve the needs of the new owners and the shape of the original house.
In a consolidated urban mesh, at the center of Ponta Delgada, the approach answers to a program of an extremely small single family house with two flights, where the lower floor accommodates a single social area, while…
In an industrial lot, that due to its position in the articulation between an avenue and a structuring roundabout, is a corner of local relevance, it was implanted an industrial unit of fabrics production.
This villa, located on the surroundings of the city of Aveiro, is part of a consolidated residential area, but with low occupancy density, being part of a housing complex of allotment, with some lots already built.