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Building Gago Coutinho
Building Gago Coutinho
Viana do Castelo, Portugal
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Building Gago Coutinho
Viana do Castelo, Portugal
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2021
Located in Viana do Castelo’s historic centre, on a corner site between Rua Gago Coutinho and Largo João Tomás da Costa, this building benefits from the whole surrounding urban space.
From inside the building, the wedge-shaped expansive view invites one to draw on the city’s history for inspiration: the Lima River and Eiffel Bridge, the columns of the old wooden bridge, the marina, the public gardens with its bandstand, the Malheiras Chapel and the Viana Statue that grips the soul with its graceful womanly forms and flowing costumes while holding a caravel in one hand, an allusion to the significance of Viana’s sea trade in days gone by.
That is the memory, the legacy that fills us with passion for this city. Pedro Homem de Mello described it thusly: “My home is Viana/Made of these narrow streets/The ships that depart/The stones that remain/The sun that scorches me/The love that does not fail/The shadows that induce fear/My home is Viana.”
It is this respect, this love for the city’s heritage that was always present in the development of the design for the building’s renovation and conversion. There was concern with achieving compatibility between the preservation and conservation of the existing parts with the new residential needs, and not to forfeit any of its identitary characteristics.
The main intervention focused on the building’s interior around the valorisation of the spiralling staircase, skylight and wall panelling, the most important elements worthy of conservation. Originally a single-family home, it now houses six apartments, two per floor, and a commercial space on the ground floor. On the exterior, the intervention focused on retaining the old tiles and balcony railings. All restoration and conservation work was carried out with extreme artisanal care.
Each intervention results in something new being created and leaves the mark of its time; for this reason, the built heritage is the result of lives lived over the centuries.
From inside the building, the wedge-shaped expansive view invites one to draw on the city’s history for inspiration: the Lima River and Eiffel Bridge, the columns of the old wooden bridge, the marina, the public gardens with its bandstand, the Malheiras Chapel and the Viana Statue that grips the soul with its graceful womanly forms and flowing costumes while holding a caravel in one hand, an allusion to the significance of Viana’s sea trade in days gone by.
That is the memory, the legacy that fills us with passion for this city. Pedro Homem de Mello described it thusly: “My home is Viana/Made of these narrow streets/The ships that depart/The stones that remain/The sun that scorches me/The love that does not fail/The shadows that induce fear/My home is Viana.”
It is this respect, this love for the city’s heritage that was always present in the development of the design for the building’s renovation and conversion. There was concern with achieving compatibility between the preservation and conservation of the existing parts with the new residential needs, and not to forfeit any of its identitary characteristics.
The main intervention focused on the building’s interior around the valorisation of the spiralling staircase, skylight and wall panelling, the most important elements worthy of conservation. Originally a single-family home, it now houses six apartments, two per floor, and a commercial space on the ground floor. On the exterior, the intervention focused on retaining the old tiles and balcony railings. All restoration and conservation work was carried out with extreme artisanal care.
Each intervention results in something new being created and leaves the mark of its time; for this reason, the built heritage is the result of lives lived over the centuries.
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