The pre-existing Granary is located on the agricultural land of a 17th-century farmhouse. Surrounded by orchards, corn fields, vineyards and next to the river course, the granary is part of a bucolic and rural landscape of about 10ha of the farm.
The project works with the rehabilitation of one of the houses built in a housing cooperative under the law of Casa Baratas (cheap houses) of 1924, in Bilbao.
Located on the bank of the historical National 18 and with a view over the Serra da Estrela, the old stone house began by occupying the rocks that rose near the stream that flows through it.
This project was an opportunity for us to demonstrate that, even in rehabilitation interventions, it is possible to successfully apply bioclimatic and passive architecture strategies using natural materials, without renouncing the beauty and contemporaneity of the architectural language.
It’s the rehabilitation of a 105m2 corner apartment in a residential building from the early twentieth century in a place in the Poble Sec neighborhood in Barcelona.
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.
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
The building object of this rehabilitation is a single-family house between party walls built in Barcelona in 1942. In the urban fabric of the neighbourhood, typologies from the early 1900s and new buildings coexist.
On the top floor of a five story building in Carrer Martínez de la Rosa we were presented with a 70 m2 dwelling in a poor state of conservation. It is characterised by its long, very narrow floor plan, some 17 metres long with a span of 3.20 m.
