Second Skin, Figueira da Foz Portugal Building, New Portuguese Architecture, Development in Portugal
Second Skin in Figueira da Foz
23 Mar 2022
Architecture: danielmsantos
Location: Figueira da Foz, Portugal

Photos: Ivo Tavares Studio
Second Skin, Portugal
With a close relation to the Mondego river, the building Second Skin rehabilitated by the architecture and engineering office danielmsantos, evokes memories of the belle époque in elegant Figueira da Foz and gives it a new, bolder and irreverent core.

Two centuries after being brought up, a new challenge comes to this riverside building that was once a manor house and hosted Municipalized Services. Pedro Daniel Santos, the architect of this rehabilitation project, embraced the adventure of preserving the character, beauty, history and brand of the building, adapting it, modernizing it, empowering it to live new stories. A new History.
This reinterpretation resorts to a bold language that confronts the existing without, with that, overlapping it. Thus, a new building that preserves the past and assumes the future emerges, introducing a new reality and philosophy, as a reaction to new social and urban paradigms.

Copper stands as the link between the existing and the new, enveloping the entire building, sometimes adding a touch of contemporaneity with bold and angular shapes, others incorporating its essence, assuming itself as a whole, which extends, wraps and involves.

Cantilevered over the patio, the “bubble...