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713, Rua da Boavista, Porto, Portugal
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Casa do Conto
713, Rua da Boavista, Porto, Portugal
Casa do Conto
In 2008, our office Pedra
Líquida (Liquid Stone) was commissioned to create a new Hotel design concept – Casa do Conto, arts&residence -
giving life to a beautiful XIX Century Oporto House, through a chirurgical
restoration process. Unfortunately, on March 2009, few days before the hotel
opening, the building suffered a terrible fire.
As architects and concept
creators we decided that we had to rebuild it, better than before. In fact, recreating
its remaining structure was an opportunity to make this new hotel, and the
memory of that special house, reborn from the ashes, like the Phoenix.
In this sense, the new
project evokes, through an abstract approach, the old house adornment and its
wall textures by using traditional surfaces – crossed wood patterns, corrugated
steel plates and curved plywood panels – as a “mould” for the new concrete
walls: at the central staircase; at the back facade; at the cubic bathrooms
inside every suite; at the oval-shaped central skylight, a typical Oporto
typology. As a result we get a kind of “fossilized architecture” where those
modern “skins” rephrase the pre-existing ones.
All the concrete ceilings are (re)decorated by carved
texts, in bass-relief, where you can read different narratives about the
concept of "house" and of that house in particular. Created by
different authors related to Oporto and its architecture, those six tails were
spatially layered by our office, and graphically imagined by R2 Designers.
Casa do Conto embodies a unique story of life, which
is, in fact, the history of the city itself. The hotel highlights Oporto’s domestic
architecture, solemn and vertical, carved by the scars of a time that mediates
its decline and rebirth, the memory of the past and the desire for the future,
the granite stone of the old facades and the new concrete of its inner core.
Credits
Architecture: Pedra Líquida
Coordination: Alexandra Grande e Joana Couceiro
Team:
Alexandra Grande, Nuno Grande, Daniela Coutinho, Joana Couceiro, João
Crisóstomo, Luís Sobral, Gerson Rei, Rui Baltazar, Ivo Lapa,
Grafic design: R2
Consultants:
AB Projectos, Gatengel,
GET, ALFA Engenharia
Client: Casa do Conto, Arts and
Residence
Location: Rua da Boavista, 713, Porto
Construction Company: Pedras de Ronfos
Project year: 1st phase 2008-2009; 2nd
phase 2009-2011
Photos: FG+SG ultimasreportagens.comProfilePedra Líquida (Liquid Stone) was created in 2006 by
Alexandra Grande, Daniela Coutinho and Nuno Grande, and it is based at Oporto
City Centre. Its main activity relates architectural design, engineering and
building management. The office is structured by a strong teamwork, based on
the dynamical contribution of different architects such as Joana Couceiro, João
Crisóstomo, Luís Sobral, Ivo Lapa and Gerson Rei.Pedra Líquida aims to live and work for the city
cultural consolidation, involving markedly the rehabilitation of urban
buildings. Its main projects are related to house renovation (single and
collective), new and creative residential and hotel concepts, exhibition design
and curatorship.Pedra Líquida was among the finalist offices of the
2008 FAD Prize, Barcelona, with the installation titled "VIP, Very
Irregular Polyhydric Room", at Casa da Música, Oporto; the office was also
awarded with the 2nd Prize at the International Competition for the
Rehabilitation of the Tram Museum in Oporto. ContactRua Álvares Cabral 44 4050-040 Porto, Portugal+351 22 201 11 77 info@pedraliquida.com
In 2008, our office Pedra
Líquida (Liquid Stone) was commissioned to create a new Hotel design concept – Casa do Conto, arts&residence -
giving life to a beautiful XIX Century Oporto House, through a chirurgical
restoration process. Unfortunately, on March 2009, few days before the hotel
opening, the building suffered a terrible fire.
As architects and concept
creators we decided that we had to rebuild it, better than before. In fact, recreating
its remaining structure was an opportunity to make this new hotel, and the
memory of that special house, reborn from the ashes, like the Phoenix.
In this sense, the new
project evokes, through an abstract approach, the old house adornment and its
wall textures by using traditional surfaces – crossed wood patterns, corrugated
steel plates and curved plywood panels – as a “mould” for the new concrete
walls: at the central staircase; at the back facade; at the cubic bathrooms
inside every suite; at the oval-shaped central skylight, a typical Oporto
typology. As a result we get a kind of “fossilized architecture” where those
modern “skins” rephrase the pre-existing ones.
All the concrete ceilings are (re)decorated by carved
texts, in bass-relief, where you can read different narratives about the
concept of "house" and of that house in particular. Created by
different authors related to Oporto and its architecture, those six tails were
spatially layered by our office, and graphically imagined by R2 Designers.
Casa do Conto embodies a unique story of life, which
is, in fact, the history of the city itself. The hotel highlights Oporto’s domestic
architecture, solemn and vertical, carved by the scars of a time that mediates
its decline and rebirth, the memory of the past and the desire for the future,
the granite stone of the old facades and the new concrete of its inner core.
Credits
Architecture: Pedra Líquida
Coordination: Alexandra Grande e Joana Couceiro
Team:
Alexandra Grande, Nuno Grande, Daniela Coutinho, Joana Couceiro, João
Crisóstomo, Luís Sobral, Gerson Rei, Rui Baltazar, Ivo Lapa,
Grafic design: R2
Consultants:
AB Projectos, Gatengel,
GET, ALFA Engenharia
Client: Casa do Conto, Arts and
Residence
Location: Rua da Boavista, 713, Porto
Construction Company: Pedras de Ronfos
Project year: 1st phase 2008-2009; 2nd
phase 2009-2011
Photos: FG+SG ultimasreportagens.comProfilePedra Líquida (Liquid Stone) was created in 2006 by
Alexandra Grande, Daniela Coutinho and Nuno Grande, and it is based at Oporto
City Centre. Its main activity relates architectural design, engineering and
building management. The office is structured by a strong teamwork, based on
the dynamical contribution of different architects such as Joana Couceiro, João
Crisóstomo, Luís Sobral, Ivo Lapa and Gerson Rei.Pedra Líquida aims to live and work for the city
cultural consolidation, involving markedly the rehabilitation of urban
buildings. Its main projects are related to house renovation (single and
collective), new and creative residential and hotel concepts, exhibition design
and curatorship.Pedra Líquida was among the finalist offices of the
2008 FAD Prize, Barcelona, with the installation titled "VIP, Very
Irregular Polyhydric Room", at Casa da Música, Oporto; the office was also
awarded with the 2nd Prize at the International Competition for the
Rehabilitation of the Tram Museum in Oporto. ContactRua Álvares Cabral 44 4050-040 Porto, Portugal+351 22 201 11 77 info@pedraliquida.com
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