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The new Sotheby’s Real Estate Headquarters at Carvoeiro, Algarve, is on an existent building characterized by both local and traditional construction technics as well as materials.
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In order to save and recuperate the building having in mind the new program, we have decided to conduct some internal demolitions as the building was not well preserved.
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Said demolitions, at a spatial configuration level, will allow to recover the building and make the necessary adjustments to the contemporary needs, mainly in terms of energy efficiency.
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The main façade had been transformed over the years therefore we have redesigned it according to what was believed to have been in the past. We have also introduced a cornice as it is tradition in most buildings of the region, similar to those existent in the area.
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On the ground level one finds the public access into a double height hall with a connecting stair as the main element, of sculpture character; it intends to give the space more fluidity in order to achieve greater sense of flow and space.
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On the upper floor, over the stair, we have proposed a skylight remembering the local constructions, as a way to achieve a higher height, sense of space and particular interest.
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On the terrace we have proposed a new volume finished with the same materials as the existent building and with the same height; here one can find a small kitchen with a particular spatial configuration given by its skylight.
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Both volumes, the existent and the new building, are openly different and take as architectonic options for its completion a sense of rehabilitation, maintenance and consolidation of existent walls and structure, being chosen, whenever possible, local and traditional technics and materials.
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We believe that this way one can establish a coherent relation between the existent and the new construction.Source by Correia/Ragazzi Arquitectos.
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- Location: Carvoeiro, Portugal
- Architects: Correia/Ragazzi Arquitectos
- Collaborators: Francisco Tavares Ascensão, Juliano Ribas Silva, Rita Breda
- Structure and Foundation Engineering: Alcepi Engenharia
- Hidraulic Engineering: Alcepi Engenharia
- Technical Facilities Engineering:Lusoclima
- Electrical Engineering: Acácio Cerqueira Gabinete De Projectos
- Promotor: Sotheby’s Real Estate
- Site Area: 150 m2
- Constrution Area: 255 m2
- Year: 2016
- Photographs: Fg+Sg – Últimas Reportagens, Courtesy of Correia/Ragazzi Arquitectos
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