Lóios

Historical renovation and touristic use

Inserted in the Cardosas Block the recent intervention by the Urban Rehabilitation Society (SRU) has, among other strategic and urban actions, created a square inside the block. The two plots are located on Largo dos Lóios, testimony to the old door of Santo Elói in the medieval Fernandina Wall of Porto.

Preserving the inherited envelope and backbone, freeing the plans on the two lighted and ventilated fronts, the intervention theme interprets the idea of the construction industry transversal to the bourgeois building systems and subsystems and the current structures and substructures.

Designed from scratch until the last detail, this project was very important, especially in the fields of construction and rehabilitation. Conceptually, a magic cube was created with new functions without ‘injuring’ the existing building.