Future that evokes the past. General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero
16/12/2022.
[Porto] Portugal
metalocus, DILYANA DRAGOEVA
metalocus, DILYANA DRAGOEVA
The General Silveira Building is a residential and commercial building designed by the architectural studio Atelier Tiago Antero (ATA) in collaboration with architect Vitor Fernandes, located on General Silveira Street in Porto, Portugal. The building fills one of the few existing voids in the city center, the pre-existence of which consisted of four ruins of no architectural value.
The pre-existence represented both freedom and responsibility for the architectural studio, where the challenge was to conceive the Porto city of the future based on formulas from the past. This exercise resulted in a building designed with a dialogue directly related to the neighboring buildings of the 19th century.
The pre-existence represented both freedom and responsibility for the architectural studio, where the challenge was to conceive the Porto city of the future based on formulas from the past. This exercise resulted in a building designed with a dialogue directly related to the neighboring buildings of the 19th century.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
Pre-existences. General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero.
Plot diagram. General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero.
Plot diagram. General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero.
Ground floor plan. General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero.
First floor plan. General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero.
Section. General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero.
Section. General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero.
Sketch. General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero.
Sketch. General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero.
Model. General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero.
Morphologically, Atelier Tiago Antero (ATA) chooses to evoke the four previous constructions by composing the building in four volumes, two for each street, leaving an interior courtyard that serves as vertical communication. The building has a gross floor area of 1,378 sqm and consists of ten dwellings spread over three floors, and four flats per floor. On the ground floor, there are three commercial premises and in the basement, there is a car park.
Both the programmatic organization and the design of the building's envelope can be traced back to the architecture of the medieval city of Porto, where shops dominated the ground floors and dwellings on the upper floors, which evolved and were used until the first half of the 19th century. The dwellings follow a social dynamic, where the social spaces relate to the street and the private spaces are turned towards the inner courtyard.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
Both the programmatic organization and the design of the building's envelope can be traced back to the architecture of the medieval city of Porto, where shops dominated the ground floors and dwellings on the upper floors, which evolved and were used until the first half of the 19th century. The dwellings follow a social dynamic, where the social spaces relate to the street and the private spaces are turned towards the inner courtyard.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
Description of project by Atelier Tiago Antero (ATA)
The most recent project by the architectural studio ATA, a residential and commercial building built in one of the few urban voids in the center of Porto, has been completed. ATA, in co-authorship with the architect Vítor Fernandes, assumed the objective of consolidating a block from the 19th century while re-interpreting the architectural language of Porto from that era.
“There was a great deal of responsibility in intervening in a classified block. The plot, originally made up of 4 small ruins of no great architectural value, allowed us to design a building from scratch, which gave us both freedom and responsibility. I have always had a great interest in renovation, but here it was different, it was an exercise of imagination, of conceiving the Porto of the future based on formulas from the past. The entire building is designed in a close relationship of dialogue with the surrounding buildings from the 19th century. The apartment's distribution, 4 per floor, culminates in 4 roofs that evoke the 4 original plots so that there is a good scale relation. In turn, the elements that make up the facades, such as cornices, balconies, openings, or even the color and pattern of the tiles, refer to the neighboring buildings. However, it is still a new building, with full-height windows and exposed concrete on the facades, namely in the pilasters that evoke the typical granite stonework of the city of Porto.”
Tiago Antero
The building, with 1378 sqm of gross building area, contains three commercial spaces on the ground floor and ten apartments spread over the remaining three floors, divided into three types – T1, T2 and T3. It also has a garage in the basement with parking spaces corresponding to each fraction.
General Silveira Building by Atelier Tiago Antero. Photograph by José Campos.
“The building organization, with housing upstairs and shops on the ground floor, is based on a tradition that dates to medieval Porto, which was later imported to the Age of Enlightenment, still used in the first half of the 19th century. As this area has a great social dynamic, the dwellings turn their social areas towards the street fronts, while private areas take advantage of the intimate character of the interior patio.”
Tiago Antero
ATA was recently appointed as the only Portuguese representative among the finalists of the Millenium Bcp Début Award at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, in a panel that includes studios from Congo, Argentina, Brazil, Georgia, Russia, India, Singapore, and Mexico, which is intended to reward the practice of an architect or studio under 35 years of age.
“It is an immense pride to be recognized by the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. It means that we are on the right track and that all the effort applied in recent years makes sense. It motivates us to continue working with the same focus.”
Tiago Antero
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Architects
ATA Atelier. Architects.- Tiago Antero and Vítor Fernandes.
Project team
Abílio Silva, Catarina Fernandes, Nieves Schiafini, Francisco Soares, Pedro Queirós, Maria Rodrigues, João Albergaria, Eleftheria Petropoulou.
Collaborators
Engineering.- Stucco, Luísa Miguel, Daniel Pires, Fénix Engenharia.
Area
1,378 sqm.
Dates
2021.
Location
Porto, Portugal.
Photography
Tiago Antero. Atelier Tiago Antero
ATA is an architecture atelier based in Porto, Portugal, founded in 2021 by Tiago Antero de Sousa. It emerges from an awareness process towards an eidetic reduction of the architectural practice. It comes from the search for the subjective essential acts of design, based on an analytical method as the main tool for the project work, in which the place and the intervention's relationship with it gain particular prominence. This way, it seeks to promote better responses, not only in relation to the needs and programs that are required but also in its functional and formal relationship with the city.
Team: Tiago Antero, Abilio Silva, Pedro Queirós, Francisco Soares, João Albergaria, Eleftheria Petropoulou, Tiffany Uno, Ábel Laki.
Tiago Antero. Architect by the Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra (DARQ-FCTUC) with an exchange year at Katholieke Universiteit on Leuven. He worked in Pedra Líquida (2013-2016). He was the cofounder of Cubículo Arquitectos (2016-2021). Finally, in 2021 ATA was founded. In addition, he has been a tutor and guest speaker at several workshops in Porto and Coimbra.
Team: Tiago Antero, Abilio Silva, Pedro Queirós, Francisco Soares, João Albergaria, Eleftheria Petropoulou, Tiffany Uno, Ábel Laki.
Tiago Antero. Architect by the Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra (DARQ-FCTUC) with an exchange year at Katholieke Universiteit on Leuven. He worked in Pedra Líquida (2013-2016). He was the cofounder of Cubículo Arquitectos (2016-2021). Finally, in 2021 ATA was founded. In addition, he has been a tutor and guest speaker at several workshops in Porto and Coimbra.
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