Casa do Conto (2011)*

Artist/Designer: pedraliquida

Project Location: Porto, Portugal

Figure 1: Casa do Conto, Porto, Portugal, Pedra Líquida, 2011. ( Source | Accessed : May 6, 2013 | Photographer: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG )

Figure 2: Casa do Conto, Porto, Portugal, Pedra Líquida, 2011. ( Source | Accessed : May 6, 2013 | Photographer: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG )

Style/Period(s):
Contemporary

Primary Material(s):
Concrete, Glass

Function(s):
Residential Structure, Hospitality

Related Website(s):

Arch Daily, "Casa do Conto." | Accessed : January 10, 2018

Significant Date(s):
21st Century, 2011

Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print-

Additional Information-

Building Address:
Rua da Boavista 703, 4050-110 Porto, Portugal

Supporting Designers/Staff:
Pedro Liquida
Design Team - Alexandra Grande, Nuno Grande, Daniela Coutinho, Joana Couceiro, João Crisóstomo, Luís Sobral, Gerson Rei, Ivo Lapa, Rui Baltazar

Significant Dates:
Completed in 2011

Associated Projects:

Additional Text:
Casa do Conto embodies a unique story of life, which is, after all, the history of the city itself. The House highlights Oporto’s XIX century domestic architecture, solemn and vertical, carved by the scars of a time that mediates its decline and rebirth, the memory of the past and the desire for the future, the granite stone of the old facades and the new concrete of staircases and ceilings. It is, indeed, a kind of “fossil architecture” that comes to life. Graved by various texts, in low relief, covering six separate rooms, these ceilings narrate the changes undergone by the concept of “house” and of this house in particular

Tags:
House, casa, residence, Portugal

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