The Alves da Veiga project aimed to reconvert an old typography, built in the nineteenth century and abandoned for decades, in a set of six apartments, maintaining all the structure and spatial concept of preexistence.

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Architects: Pedro Ferreira Architecture Studio

Location: R. Dr. Alves da Veiga, 4000 Porto, Portugal

Architect In Charge: Pedro Vasco Ferreira

Area: 498.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: João Morgado

Engineering: ASL & Associados

Construction: Homereab

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From the architect. The Alves da Veiga project aimed to reconvert an old typography, built in the nineteenth century and abandoned for decades, in a set of six apartments, maintaining all the structure and spatial concept of preexistence.
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The original building, though appearing from the outside only two storeys, in fact contained a curious floor + mezzanine organization that actually embodied four habitable floors.

Plans

Despite the advanced state of degradation, the industrial austerity that we encountered during the first visits served as a starting point for the definition of the proposal.

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A simple and strict organization where the spaces are strongly illuminated and marked by the double height of the right feet.

Section

The result is six duplex apartments, where the white walls ...