Casa Celestina / Ramos Castellano Arquitectos

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  • Architect In Charge: Ramos Castellano Arquitectos
  • Design Team: Eloisa Ramos, Moreno S. Castellano
  • Structural Designer: Ilidio Alexandre
  • Builder: Cipriano Tomas
  • Carpentry And Furniture Fabrication: Sig. Adriano Gomes
  • Paintings: Moreno Castellano
  • City: Mindelo
  • Country: Cape Verde
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Text description provided by the architects. The city of Mindelo on the island of Sao Vicente, Capo Verde, west Africa, is expanding rapidly, with 50% of the population under the age of 25, and with a constantly growing touristic flow.

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Casa Celestina / Ramos Castellano Arquitectos - Interior Photography, Windows
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The 60 sqm plot is located in the city's center commercial street. A street that in the last 15 years has transformed its architecture, from residential, with traditional multi-colored one-storey houses, to small 4-storey apartment buildings, with the possibility of one meter overhang on the public road. How could we create an harmonious transition between the old existing, the new and the two existing buildings on the sides of the plot. Above all, as we could have conveyed through a 4-storey vertical façade, the same joy that was in traditional architecture, combining it with a new program.

Casa Celestina / Ramos Castellano Arquitectos - Interior Photography, Windows
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On the ground floor 120 sqm for commercial and co-working use on two levels, the project tries to create a direct dialogue between the space and the street through the openings. The apartments, 6 of 29 sqm each, plus the attic 60 sq m, are designed to allow space to be used in the most flexible and adaptable form.

Casa Celestina / Ramos Castellano Arquitectos - Interior Photography, Table, Chair
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The openings are designed to create an internal external relationship, filtering and selecting the views that contribute to calmness and internal concentration, and at the same time creating a relationship for positioning and size with the architecture of the two lateral buildings.

Casa Celestina / Ramos Castellano Arquitectos - Exterior Photography
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Elevations
Casa Celestina / Ramos Castellano Arquitectos - Interior Photography, Windows, Facade
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The chromatism of the windows has a direct relationship with the chromatic palette already present in traditional Cabo Verdian architecture, and the movement of the openings absorbs and transfers a dynamism and a dialogue with the street and above all with the stereometry of the neighboring buildings. Local handcraftsmanship and certified pine wood for the furniture, crossed ventilation for the natural climatization of the apartments.

Casa Celestina / Ramos Castellano Arquitectos - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Sergio Pirrone

The internal furniture follows the same logic of flexibility and transformability of the space that architecture manifests, creating a harmonious and dynamic set of relationships between space and human being. The feeling that you live within the space is calm within a constant moving stream.

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Address:Mindelo, Cape Verde

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Cite: "Casa Celestina / Ramos Castellano Arquitectos" 16 Jan 2021. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/954658/casa-celestina-ramos-castellano-arquitectos> ISSN 0719-8884

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Celestina之家,西非的彩色畅想 / Ramos Castellano Arquitectos

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