Architecture

The rebirth of an ancient residence in the heart of the historic city. Casa Caldeira – Felipe Pina arquitectura

FILIPE PINA CASA CALDEIRA
The rebirth of an ancient residence in the heart of the historic city. Casa Caldeira – Felipe Pina arquitectura it has been modified: 2023-03-29 di Benedetto Fiori

In the historic center of Vila Nova de Foz Coa, the Casa Caldeira project by Felipe Pina arquitectura focuses on the renovation of a building built at the end of the XNUMXth century, transforming it into a single-family house, where the historic architectural features are adapted to the contemporary living reality.

The southern elevation of the building has undergone several alterations and associated constructions over the years, with no architectural connection to the original construction. However, slate thresholds are highlighted as the main cladding applied over the shale wall structure. It is on the basis of these two notable elements (slate and schist) that it is proposed to reconfigure the space and the elevation, still responding to the traditional method of construction, which seeks to highlight the rear elevation, facing south, and to assume this as the new main elevation of the house.

Without neglecting the historical value of the remaining portions, the existing elements of granite sawmills and masonry are recovered on the northern and spring portions, and new rooms are opened to the south, leaving the shale ruins, the external walls and the colors of nature uncovered for those who lives inside the house. At the construction level, traditional solutions have been chosen, with the selection of materials of natural origin, such as lime plaster for the facades, wooden frames, wooden floors, insulation with agglomerated cork on the floors and the application of slate thresholds.

Programmatically, the house is organized on two levels, with the main access from the southern facade at the ground floor level. It is on this floor that the entire social area is distributed in a connected space, delimited only by the pre-existing internal walls, in schist masonry. Upstairs, the three bedrooms are organized in a game of symmetries and rotations, where the meeting point culminates in a large space for the natural landscape typical of the region.

project info

Project name: Caldeira House
Architecture Office: Philip Pina
Main Architect: Philip Pina
Collaborations: Diana Cruz
Website: www.fp-a.pt/
Email: info@fp-a.pt
Instagram: fp_architectures
Location: Vila Nova de Foz Coa – Portugal
Year of conclusion: 2021
total area: 270m2
Engineering: Ricardo Pereira

Architectural photographer: Ivo Tavares Studio
Website: www.ivotavares.net
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ivotavaresstudio
Instagram: www.instagram.com/ivotavaresstudio

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