Figurative composition, dialogue with the past. Miraflor House by Camilo Rebelo
17/04/2023.
[Porto] Portugal
metalocus, ANDRÉS BLANCO, OSCAR A. SÁNCHEZ
metalocus, ANDRÉS BLANCO, OSCAR A. SÁNCHEZ
Portuguese studio of the architect, Camilo Rebelo, has been the author of the renovation of an old warehouse into a new private home. The morphology of the building is very characteristic of the commercial warehouses of the always fantastic city of Porto, located in the north-central part of Portugal.
The reform paid special attention to the scrupulous maintenance and recovery of the main and rear façades, together with their immediate spaces such as entrance halls to the house and the backyard, transitional spaces that add an interesting scenographic atmosphere.
The large interior is recovered with a large emptying adding a second internal skin of reinforced concrete that surrounds and consolidates the existing stone structure. A new space illuminated through skylights that illuminate a large space with a traditional residential program.
The reform paid special attention to the scrupulous maintenance and recovery of the main and rear façades, together with their immediate spaces such as entrance halls to the house and the backyard, transitional spaces that add an interesting scenographic atmosphere.
The large interior is recovered with a large emptying adding a second internal skin of reinforced concrete that surrounds and consolidates the existing stone structure. A new space illuminated through skylights that illuminate a large space with a traditional residential program.
Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo. Photograph by Nuno Pinto.
Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo. Photograph by Nuno Pinto.
Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo. Photograph by Nuno Pinto.
Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo. Photograph by Nuno Pinto.
Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo. Photograph by Nuno Pinto.
Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo. Photograph by Nuno Pinto.
Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo. Photograph by Nuno Pinto.
Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo. Photograph by Nuno Pinto.
Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo. Photograph by Nuno Pinto.
Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo. Photograph by Nuno Pinto.
Ground floor plan. Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo.
First floor plan. Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo.
Section. Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo.
Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo. Photograph by Nuno Pinto.
Camilo Rebelo uses concrete as the main material, which does not cover everything and maintains the contrast with the old granite stone wall, as a notary of the different layers and times through which the life of the building has passed, thus accentuating the memory of the different construction times. The complementary elements are built with stuccoed walls and painted MDF panels.
The interior façade of the new volume is built in concrete, with a traditional central door. The mezzanine level is made with a black-painted iron spiral staircase. The overhead light is dominant, and the back of the house has a winter garden inside and a small garden outside.
Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo. Photograph by Nuno Pinto.
Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo. Photograph by Nuno Pinto.
Description of project by Camilo Rebelo
1. A warehouse was rehabilitated, exterior and interior facades and roof.
2. We conceived a traditional space, within a warehouse, without touching the exterior facades, freeing the new volume inside from the pre-existing space, generating two distinct transition sectors between old and new.
3. The interior façade of the new volume is, from the street side, a figurative composition, built in concrete with a traditional central door.
4. The inside construction is in natural concrete, with a slight contrast from the old granite stone wall, emphasizing, in this way, the different epochs of the two constructions. The complementary works are built-in walls stucco and MDF-painted panels.
5. The in-between levels it’s done with a spiral iron stair painted in black.
6. The dominant light is zenithally and points out different moments of the inner spaces.
7. In the back of the house, on the inside, there is a winter garden, and on the exterior a small garden.
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Architects
Project team
Mariana Barreira, Mariana Melo.
Collaborators
Engineering.- G.O.P. Gabinete de Organização e Projetos Lda.
Structural Engineers.- G.O.P. Lda. Jorge Nunes da Silva.
General Contractor.- Matriz - Sociedade de Construções Lda. Fernando Dias, Filipe Queiroz.
Principal in charge.- Fernando Dias.
Structural Engineers.- G.O.P. Lda. Jorge Nunes da Silva.
General Contractor.- Matriz - Sociedade de Construções Lda. Fernando Dias, Filipe Queiroz.
Principal in charge.- Fernando Dias.
Client
Joana Fins Faria.
Area
Total floor area.- 260 m².
Site area.- 224 m².
Site area.- 224 m².
Dates
Design years.- 2016.
Construction years.- 03.2018-03.2019.
Construction years.- 03.2018-03.2019.
Location
Porto, Portugal.
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Camilo Rebelo
Camilo Rebelo was born in Porto in 1972. He studied at the German College in Porto and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto in 1996. He worked with Souto de Moura 1994-98 and with Herzog & de Meuron 1998-99. He started his activity as a freelancer in Porto in 2000 and since then he has created about a hundred projects, some of them in partnership with Tiago Pimentel and Susana Martins.
He has taught at the Faculty of Architecture University of Porto, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la University of Navarra (ETSAUN), Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio and RAC University Shanghai. Since 2015 he has had a research studio, Arquitetura e Paisagem [Architecture and Landscape], in the Politecnico di Milano.
His work has been recognised through several national and international awards including the Bauwelt Award, Baku UIA Award and Douro Valley Award, as well as nominations for the SECIL Award, BSI Swiss Prize and EU Mies Award. The Ktima Villa was chosen by BBC2 to feature in a documentary series “The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes Underground”.
His area of research finds its dimension in between archaic - modern and abstract - figurative, and mostly developed within the relationship architecture - nature, linking urban contexts and areas of protected and classified natural landscape. Matter, its atmosphere, its constructive processes and the urgency of its uses in each context have been recognised in Portugal and abroad.
He has taught at the Faculty of Architecture University of Porto, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la University of Navarra (ETSAUN), Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio and RAC University Shanghai. Since 2015 he has had a research studio, Arquitetura e Paisagem [Architecture and Landscape], in the Politecnico di Milano.
His work has been recognised through several national and international awards including the Bauwelt Award, Baku UIA Award and Douro Valley Award, as well as nominations for the SECIL Award, BSI Swiss Prize and EU Mies Award. The Ktima Villa was chosen by BBC2 to feature in a documentary series “The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes Underground”.
His area of research finds its dimension in between archaic - modern and abstract - figurative, and mostly developed within the relationship architecture - nature, linking urban contexts and areas of protected and classified natural landscape. Matter, its atmosphere, its constructive processes and the urgency of its uses in each context have been recognised in Portugal and abroad.
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