Hotel in Coimbra / depA
The three pre-existing buildings around a mediterranean courtyard are located Coimbra, in the city’s UNESCO World Heritage Protection Zone.
© José Campos
Architects: depA
Location: Alta de Coimbra, Portugal
Authors: Carlos Azevedo, João Crisóstomo, LuÃs Sobral, Miguel Santos, Sara Pontes, Margarida Leitão
Engeneering: CPX, Ncrep, Mse
Consultant: Financertus
Area: 23680.6 ft2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: José Campos
© José Campos
Text description provided by the architects. The three pre-existing buildings around a mediterranean courtyard are located Coimbra, in the city’s UNESCO World Heritage Protection Zone.
© José Campos
In such delicate surroundings, the intervention seeks a delicate design balanced between the need for technical adaptations to contemporary building demands, the legal requirements for a contemporary hotel and the huge care that an intervention of this type requires. In other words, the adaption to the new program and the consequent deep intervention by all means paid deep respect for the historical relevance of the buildings and its great architectural and constructive values.
© José Campos
This balanced strategy allowed, at the same time, to clarify the difference between the preserved old elements and all the new and, above all, the difference between the three buildings: the former house ...
© José Campos
Architects: depA
Location: Alta de Coimbra, Portugal
Authors: Carlos Azevedo, João Crisóstomo, LuÃs Sobral, Miguel Santos, Sara Pontes, Margarida Leitão
Engeneering: CPX, Ncrep, Mse
Consultant: Financertus
Area: 23680.6 ft2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: José Campos
© José Campos
Text description provided by the architects. The three pre-existing buildings around a mediterranean courtyard are located Coimbra, in the city’s UNESCO World Heritage Protection Zone.
© José Campos
In such delicate surroundings, the intervention seeks a delicate design balanced between the need for technical adaptations to contemporary building demands, the legal requirements for a contemporary hotel and the huge care that an intervention of this type requires. In other words, the adaption to the new program and the consequent deep intervention by all means paid deep respect for the historical relevance of the buildings and its great architectural and constructive values.
© José Campos
This balanced strategy allowed, at the same time, to clarify the difference between the preserved old elements and all the new and, above all, the difference between the three buildings: the former house ...
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