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António Belém Lima

Engineers Association . Vila Real

António Belém Lima . Engineers Association . Vila Real (6)

António Belém Lima . photos: © FG+SG | architectural photography

In the modest Engineers Association’s location in Vila Real, you realize that the building’s potential and architecture can once again be gently manifest.

When a building concentrates meanings and returns those same denotations with redoubled intensity, it can be considered a resonance box. This underlines the expectant emptiness between Vila Velha Museum and the obsolete house that defines the void and convincingly assumes its finishes. That same void is the air volume that propagates the sound between walls. Continue reading António Belém Lima

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Belém Lima

Artesanato Lamego . Castelo Lamego

Belém Lima  . Artesanato Lamego . Castelo Lamego (1)

António Belém Lima . photos: © FG+SG fotografia de arquitectura

The reconversion of “solar Porta dos Figos”, medieval building leaning against the wall and door of the castle of Lamego, allows the coexistence of two different programs. At levels 1, 2 and 3 we have a center of traditional arts (store, workshop, training and research). At levels 3 and 4, a Residence Guest for Artists (living room, kitchenette, 2 bedrooms) that reuse the chapel-oratory of “Nossa Senhora do Socorro” as library overlooking the castle tower.
The volumes were maintained and the fundamental elements of stone and wood on the outside. The interior seeks distinct atmospheres for those two strangers programs in the past. Continue reading Belém Lima