spaceworkers: centro de informacao do romanico

‘centro de informacao do romanico’ by spaceworkers

in conceiving the ‘centro de informacao do romanico’, designers spaceworkers wanted to reserve the identity of the site and the characteristics of the building concerned, so they decided to create an intervention rather than interrupt the existing architecture. the proposed space is a house-shaped cultural center inserted inside a nineteenth-century schoolhouse in paredes, portugal, positioned as if a solid volume has landed within that perfectly reacts to the geometry of the structure’s interior shape. the two programs–a shop and service area and auditorium–are divided by a small square. a monolithic construction with a central door is the auditorium which can be opened or closed, while the opposing fabrication is exposed with no moving walls.

central square in the middle of the two volumes

store and service desk

auditorium which has large doors opening up the space

central square with the auditorium open

interior of the auditorium

auditorium volume closed

view of the shop from inside the auditorium

 view from the deambulatory

view from the deambulatory

general view of the intervention which stands as a ‘house within a house’

approach

project info:

project: public buildingyear: 2012size: 100m2address: paredesclient: rota do românicoauthor: spaceworkers®team principal architects: henrique marques | architect rui dinis | architectarchitects: rui rodrigues | architect sérgio rocha | architect rui miguel | architectfinance director: carla duarte – CFOengineer: simetria vertical, ldaphotography: FG+SG

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