Francisco Portugal e Gomes – Portugal

La casa se organiza en dos volúmenes bien diferenciados, como núcleos funcionales autónomos, pero complementarios en la dialéctica: oscuro y claro, público y privado, bajo y alto. Ambos articulados por el recibidor, que a la vez articula los espacios exteriores de frente y contrafente.

Francisco Portugal e Gomes
Francisco Portugal e Gomes en Arquitectura Arkinetia

Fotos: Luís Ferreira Alves - Luís Oliveira Santos
Luís Ferreira Alves - Luís Oliveira Santos en arkinetia

Memoria original en portugués::

Localização:
Milhundos/ Penafiel
1996-2002

O terreno está situado na periferia da cidade de Penafiel, no vale do rio Cavalum e encontra-se inserido num loteamento próximo do Parque da Quinta das Lages.

A proposta altera a implantação prevista no loteamento original e retoma a regra da geminação que, só não estava contemplada para os edifícios dos lotes L8 e L9, procurando corresponder a uma solução mais articulada com as volumetrias mais próximas e em simultâneo atender às inúmeras ambiguidades e desequilíbrios dos desenhos do loteamento e do lote.

A casa está organizada em dois núcleos funcionais autónomos, mas complementares, aos quais correspondem dois volumes distintos, cada um deles com diferentes relacionamentos com o espaço exterior; um branco e rebocado que pontualmente procura a paisagem mais distante, e um outro de pedra negra que tem um contacto mais directo com o seu terreno interior.



Memoria original en inglés::

The ground places in the outskirts of the city of Penafiel, in the valley of the river Cavalum and is inserted in an allotment near the park of Quinta das Lages.

The proposal modifies the implementation anticipated in the original allotment and resumes the duplication rule, not observed in the buildings of the lots L8 and L9, seeking a more articulated solution with the nearest volumes and simultaneously taking the vast ambiguities and disarrangements between the allotment and the lot drawings into account.

As for the house itself, it is organised in two functional, though complementary, autonomous groups, to which correspond two distinct volumes. Each one of these volumes has different relations towards the exterior space: one white and plastered seeks the most distant landscape; the other one, made with dark stone has a more direct contact with its interior ground.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Francisco Portugal e Gomes was born on the 10th of July, 1963 in Oporto, Portugal. In 1983 enters the Architecture Course of Belas Artes in Oporto. In 1989 gets the graduate degree in Architecture by the FAUP – Architecture Faculty of Oporto University. Between 1988 and 1997 cooperates with the architects Jorge Gigante, Francisco Melo, José Gigante and João Álvaro Rocha in their own’s office. From 1992 to 1995 was pointed out as collaborator in two projects of architects José Gigante and João Álvaro Rocha’s authorship: LNIV – National Laboratory of Veterinary Investigation in Varão, Vila do Conde and ICP – Institute of the Portuguese Comunications/ North Delegation. The first work received the Prize for the European Section of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 2001 and the second was awarded with the Prize Architecti/ Centro Cultural de Belém in 1995. From 1994 to 2000 Francisco Portugal e Gomes performed several projects in co-authorship with Arch. João Álvaro Rocha. From 2001 on works as architect in his own office located in Oporto. Between 1995, and 1997, he worked as invited assistant in the FAUP – Architecture Faculty of Oporto University. Since 2005 works in the ESG/ Escola Superior Gallaecia, teaching Urban and Rural Rehabilitation to the 5th degree of the Architecture Course. In 1991 receives the secound prize in the Restricted Contest, Municipal Public Library in Santo Tirso. In 2004 is also awarded with the 2nd Prize in the Restricted Contest concerning the Touristic Undertaking Quinta Vale Covo.
In co-authorship with architect João Álvaro Rocha wins several prizes: Honourable Mention in the Public Contest for the Cultural Building in the enclosure of Palácio de Cristal, Oporto, 1994; first Prize in the Restricted Contest by Previous Qualification for the Universitary Student’s Dwelling of the Universitary Pole in Alto da Ajuda, Lisbon, 1996; first Prize in the contest for the Conception/ Construction of the Urban Park in Moutidos, Maia, 1997.
Francisco Portugal e Gomes is also finalist of the prize FAD/ Architecture Section – Barcelona with the Residential Complex of Outeiro I, from the P.E.R. Program of the Town Hall of Maia in the year 2000.