Apartments in Mártires da Pátria
- Renovation & Repurpose, Residential, Project & Construction
- Rua dos Mártires da Liberdade, Porto, 2010
The apartments in Mártires da Liberdade are the result of the rehabilitation and reconversion of an unoccupied building.
The building
This late 19th-century building, once elegant, was very degraded and abandoned. The building was configured as a bourgeois house, with spaces for great social representation and others for service or accommodation of servants.
The first floor stood out in splendor and refinement, which extended, to a lesser extent, to the second floor. The third floor was configured as the "maids'" rooms, as designated at the time, with small openings and simple joinery. The ground floor, beyond the reception area under the staircase opening, was characterized as a storage space.
This reality was inscribed in the proportions of the rooms, in the details of doors and windows, moldings and baseboards, as well as in the plasterwork on walls and ceilings. It would become the guiding principle for the design development of the different apartments on the various floors.
The project
Thus, all floors were replaced. The roof was completely renovated.
The apartments in Mártires da Liberdade were organized into 7 T1s and 2 T0s, intended for the rental market.
The configuration and areas of the apartments reflect the evident hierarchization of spaces and floors, which guided the original conception of the building.
Thus, the first-floor salon was the space originally characterized for the representation of social prominence, evident in the size and volume of the space and the scale of the windows and interior doors and the refinement of the carpentry and plasterwork details (of which only small portions remained). In it, a "loft" in an "open space" was developed.
The third floor was the floor originally intended for the "maids" and divided into small spaces "pressed" against the roof lining and illuminated by small windows. On this floor, apartments with more intimate characteristics were created.
The staircase accessing the various floors of apartments, bright and imposing, was fully restored. Additionally, it was enhanced with a chandelier installation that incorporates lighting and takes advantage of the opening and amplitude of the staircase well.
However, other period details were highlighted to characterize and enhance the building's spaces. The rear facade was recovered and revalued with cleaning and the removal of poor-quality and precarious additions to the balconies.
The building
This late 19th-century building, once elegant, was very degraded and abandoned. The building was configured as a bourgeois house, with spaces for great social representation and others for service or accommodation of servants.
The first floor stood out in splendor and refinement, which extended, to a lesser extent, to the second floor. The third floor was configured as the "maids'" rooms, as designated at the time, with small openings and simple joinery. The ground floor, beyond the reception area under the staircase opening, was characterized as a storage space.
This reality was inscribed in the proportions of the rooms, in the details of doors and windows, moldings and baseboards, as well as in the plasterwork on walls and ceilings. It would become the guiding principle for the design development of the different apartments on the various floors.
The project
Thus, all floors were replaced. The roof was completely renovated.
The apartments in Mártires da Liberdade were organized into 7 T1s and 2 T0s, intended for the rental market.
The configuration and areas of the apartments reflect the evident hierarchization of spaces and floors, which guided the original conception of the building.
Thus, the first-floor salon was the space originally characterized for the representation of social prominence, evident in the size and volume of the space and the scale of the windows and interior doors and the refinement of the carpentry and plasterwork details (of which only small portions remained). In it, a "loft" in an "open space" was developed.
The third floor was the floor originally intended for the "maids" and divided into small spaces "pressed" against the roof lining and illuminated by small windows. On this floor, apartments with more intimate characteristics were created.
The staircase accessing the various floors of apartments, bright and imposing, was fully restored. Additionally, it was enhanced with a chandelier installation that incorporates lighting and takes advantage of the opening and amplitude of the staircase well.
However, other period details were highlighted to characterize and enhance the building's spaces. The rear facade was recovered and revalued with cleaning and the removal of poor-quality and precarious additions to the balconies.