Uncovered concrete, steel-framed home windows and handmade bricks reference the previously industrial web site of Agramonte Home, a house in Portugal designed by native studio António Bessa Cruz Architects.
The house is situated on the positioning of a former automobile restore workshop subsequent to Agramonte Cemetery in Porto, which the consumer had initially deliberate on changing right into a loft-style residence.
When this proved structurally unimaginable, António Bessa Cruz Architects (ABCA) determined to as a substitute exchange it with a new-build residence that echoed the previous industrial constructing, informing each the fabric palette and insular, courtyard structure.
“The area lacked any situations for habitation or easy renovation, however the consumer wished to transform it right into a loft, so I got down to develop an architectural undertaking impressed by that context,” founder António Cruz instructed Dezeen.
“The primary problem was to design a dwelling that ensured plentiful pure gentle, beneficiant open areas, and minimal to no visible reference to the outside – notably avoiding views towards the cemetery,” he continued.
“The selection of supplies stems from this intention to create a ‘loft’ ambiance, achieved by way of the usage of concrete, strong brick, metal and glass partitions, and darkish oak wooden.”
To dam out the close by cemetery, the L-shaped type of Agramonte Home presents an nearly completely clean face to the road, save for a row of high-level home windows that draw daylight right into a central residing, eating and kitchen area.
Flanking a big picket eating desk on the centre of this area are two warehouse-like glazed sections, with openable doorways and home windows framed in gridded black metal. They open onto paved, high-walled courtyards on both aspect.
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The kitchen is wrapped by full-height cabinets completed in darkish oak, whereas within the lounge space, a modular gray couch is framed by uncovered concrete partitions reverse a big concrete staircase illuminated by clerestory home windows.
Within the perpendicular wing of the bottom ground, three bedrooms and two loos sit off a brick-lined hall, every oriented to learn from views over one of many residence’s courtyards.
On the smaller first ground, the primary bed room suite encompasses a mattress raised on a timber plinth and a walk-in wardrobe lined with darkish oak.
Within the bedrooms, the uncovered concrete partitions on the bottom ground are swapped for a mix of white brickwork and bigger blockwork partitions.
For the loos, a mix of charcoal-painted blockwork and bricks is accompanied by white tiles with black grout, tubular steel fittings and black-steel screens that proceed the economic really feel.
Elsewhere in Porto, native observe Fala Atelier beforehand remodeled a warehouse into a house outlined by massive, open-plan areas, and Álvaro Siza just lately added an angular concrete extension to a renovated monastery.
The images is by Alexander Bogorodskiy.
