027 Shuffle
Wallpaper* House
Location
Porto, Portugal
Date
June 2010
Client
Wallpaper* magazine
Program
Residential / Retail 300 m²
Status
Published Wallpaper* Emerging Architects 2010
Collaboration
OnOffice
Team
Eugénio Cardoso, João Vieira Costa, Joana Gomes, Ricardo Guedes, Francesco Moncada, Leon Rost
Following the challenge of WALLPAPER* magazine to develop an infill house, we took the opportunity to find a typical Porto 19th century house, and question its adaptability to the current living conditions…
The typical typology in of the 19th-century buildings has a central staircase, that distributes the spaces that relate to either street or courtyard. It becomes a static distribution…
By placing the vertical distribution, as well the service areas, in a single side slot, we allow total flexibility of spaces, uses, and visual relations…
A Mondrian kind of typology of space distribution will provide the definition of spaces, according to the tenant’s ambitions. The circulation slot also becomes a dynamic element…
The spaces can have multiple scales, heights, even shapes, and relate differently with both facades, depending on the privacy needs…
The service areas, such as kitchens and bathrooms, will occupy the free spaces left by the vertical circulation, in the distribution slot…
A project that is solved by a circulation solution, but that transcends to a spatial concept driven exercise…
The ground floor is programmatic flexible, whether a commercial space, garage, or another residential floor. The inner garden can be part of the commercial area or be absorbed by the residential realm…
Porto´s traditional ceramic tiles are tested to a bigger scale, where the motives can only be read from a longer distance…
As the windows follow the internal distribution, the typical size openings shuffle along the façades, offering a new rhythm to the cityscape…
