VN Garden Pavilion in Porto
VN Garden Pavilion, Porto Public Building, Portugal Structure, Architecture Photography, Images
VN Garden Pavilion in Porto
Public BuildingProject in Portugal – design by NOARQ, Architects
12 Jul 2017
VN Garden Pavilion
Architect: José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira Arquitecto
Location: Porto, Portugal
VN Garden Pavilion
The architects received an urgent call from a client asking them to transform a modest wooden frame shelter (covered with tile) into a renovated and bigger garden pavilion. It was a basic construction in a eclectic yard landscape serving a luxury villa. The house was surrounded by successive kitsch extensions. The request was to design a garden structure able to host a family wedding four months later.
– The challenge didn?t promise! The object was fragile and too small. In the meantimes the clients bought the attached property and the new project gained a new front – new possibilities!
The neighborhood buildings were (and are) humble and with variety in their forms, colors and facades. In the surrounding landscape emerges an assortment of constructive contamination and land occupation. I remembered that Manuel Graça Dias used to repeat: “The landscape is occupied with houses, many houses and other buildings, inventions that make life possible, that make it more” natural “, no ugly nor beautiful, roads, water ducts, tanks, energy ducts, furnaces, factories, schools, churches (…)symbolic places that are a celebration...
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