Santos Pousada Apartment, Porto Retro Design, Photos, Portuguese Interior Architecture Restoration
Santos Pousada Apartment in Porto
23 Jul 2021
Architects: Hinterland Architecture Studio
Location: Matosinhos, Oporto, Portugal

Santos Pousada Apartment
Santos Pousada Apartment is located on the top floor of a building designed by Portuguese mid-century architects Arménio Losa and Cassiano Barbosa. Built in 1956 as a rental unit building the last floor was originally planed as an exterior semi public space.

During the original construction this space was adapted to two symmetrical apartments, repeating the scheme of the remaining floors. This programmatic change is responsible for some of the mostsingular formal elements of the apartment, the concrete structural elements and the size of the windows that represent 55% of the facade surface area.
The aim of the project is to completely modernize the original three-bedroom apartment with 80sqm gross area into a more confortable, energy efficient two-bedroom apartment for a young couple with a kid, dog, office, and a library without compromising the mid-century original style.

The project strategy was to define a central open space on the apartment where the family spends most of the time, increasing its area by demolishing some interior walls. Here we have the living space, dining space, library and office. The several spaces are organized with three types of carpentry elements, loose elements, wall aligned elements and...