3 Apartments, Porto Residence, Portugal Residential Building, Architecture Photography
3 Apartments in Porto
Rehabilitation Building Project in Portugal – design by Atelier in.vitro, Architects
2 Feb 2017
3 Apartments
Design: Atelier in.vitro
Location: Porto, Portugal
3 Apartments

The objective was to rehabilitate a set of 3 existing apartments, each one with an area of about 200sqm, maintaining its housing function with large typologies (T3, T4 and T5) and allowing simultaneously its use as touristic units. The apartments occupy part of the 5th, 6th and 7th floors of one the most charismatic buildings in the city of Porto, called “Palácio do Comércio”, located on Sá da Bandeira street, and maintains, in general, the original functional distribution and constructive elements.
During the elaboration of the projects it was taken into account that the original architectural project of this remarkable example of the mid-twentieth century Portuguese architecture was developed by the architects Maria José Marques da Silva and David Moreira da Silva. The constructive details and the noble materials used in its construction demonstrate the constructive quality and the architectural accuracy of the building. The marble stones in the common areas of the building, the noble woods in the floorboards and in the carpentries, the copper in the frames, some of them curved, among others, stand out.

The proposed interventions sought to minimize the impact on t...