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Ground Floor House - Serralves / oitoo

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  • Architects: oitoo
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  221
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2023
  • Photographs
Ground Floor House - Serralves / oitoo - Exterior Photography, Facade, Windows, Column
© Attílio Fiumarella

Text description provided by the architects. Following the completion of the ground floor house, and the broader research, reground Porto, oitoo was commissioned with yet another opportunity to reuse and repurpose an unused ground floor space.

Ground Floor House - Serralves / oitoo - Interior Photography
© Attílio Fiumarella
Ground Floor House - Serralves / oitoo - Interior Photography, Handrail
© Attílio Fiumarella

We found a commercial space that has stayed vacant since it was originally built in 1996. After a quarter of a century, it became abundantly evident that other uses should be considered. 

Ground Floor House - Serralves / oitoo - Interior Photography, Living Room
© Attílio Fiumarella
Ground Floor House - Serralves / oitoo - Image 41 of 43
Axonometric
Ground Floor House - Serralves / oitoo - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Sink
© Attílio Fiumarella
Ground Floor House - Serralves / oitoo - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Countertop, Sink
© Attílio Fiumarella

As it is often the case in similar contexts, these spaces present unique features that allow them to become generous, domestic spaces featuring relatively large areas, open spatial layouts, high ceilings, and a backyard asking to become something else. 

Ground Floor House - Serralves / oitoo - Interior Photography, Bedroom, Windows, Bed
© Attílio Fiumarella

oitoo adapted this ground floor to a residential function, activating the relatively secluded street and restituting the permeability in the backyard, with a new garden. All this is in close vicinity to one of Porto's cultural landmarks - Serralves Park and Museum. 

Ground Floor House - Serralves / oitoo - Image 38 of 43
Illustration - After

This project demanded a thorough reflection upon specific themes of interior design: mediating between the public and private realm, designing and organizing the internal domestic space; considering natural and artificial lighting needs in an exceptionally deep plot; considering finishes and materiality; considering the opportunities that high ceilings present to define an internal “topography”; rethinking the use of the backyard, from a logistic area to an effective expansions of the inside realm – an “outside room”, open towards the sky.

Ground Floor House - Serralves / oitoo - Image 40 of 43
Illustration - After
Ground Floor House - Serralves / oitoo - Exterior Photography, Garden
© Attílio Fiumarella

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Cite: "Ground Floor House - Serralves / oitoo" [Casa no Rés do Chão - Serralves / oitoo] 27 Nov 2023. ArchDaily. Accessed 19 Dec 2024. <https://www.archdaily.com/1010202/ground-floor-house-serralves-oitoo> ISSN 0719-8884
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