Clínica Médica Jardim | Interior Design Project at Lixa, Portugal

In a personal capacity, I accepted the challenge of remodeling, designing finishes and choosing furniture for a medical clinic at Lixa. Located on one of the main streets, the goal was to convert an old space into a modern and sophisticated clinic.

Fotografias por NG Video Studio / Nélson Gonçalves

Child's Bedroom | Interior Design Project in Braga, Portugal

In this project, the goal was to decorate and furnish the room for a two-year-old girl. Thus, all the elements were chosen in order to give the child maximum autonomy - the bed next to the floor, the paintings at eye level...

A bookcase was also designed, with work space, which includes a desk adjustable on two levels, so that it can be used immediately, sitting on the floor, and in the future, with a comfortable chair.

Photography by NG Video Studio / Nélson Gonçalves

Home Office | Interior Design Project in Braga, Portugal

In this project, the goal was to convert the bedroom of an apartment into a comfortable workspace at home. For this, the furniture was custom-designed, in oak wood, and the decoration chosen to make the atmosphere welcoming.

The client's first requirement was that this space would be mainly for work and leisure, without losing the possibility of having a bed to receive guests at home. For this purpose, a vertical bed was designed, which is hidden in the furniture, maximizing the useful area of the room.

Furthermore, another particularity of this home office is the possibility of carrying out work sitting or standing, with an automatic mechanism built into the desk.

The result is a balanced space that fulfills the function of a bedroom, office and library, without any function being compromised, guaranteeing both aesthetics and comfort.

Photography by NG Video Studio / Nélson Gonçalves

Brainhouse Offices | Interior Design Project in Braga, Portugal

In a personal capacity, I accepted the challenge of remodeling, designing finishes and choosing furniture for a web design office in Braga. Located on one of the main streets in the city centre, the goal was to convert an old space into a modern office, adjusted to the aesthetic and functional needs of the young team that works there.

The old, sanded walls, denouncing office antiquity, were covered up to a height of 2.60 meters by two large side panels in white. In this way, the space is reconfigured to a fresh and orthogonal environment, still giving the freedom to take advantage of every corner to suppress the need for storage that a work place requires.

On the left side, an oak wood niche delimits Brainhouse's General Manager area, adding a point of interest with the possibility of placing decorative elements.

One of the main goals of this refurbishment was still stake out a small arrival hall and the meeting room, without losing the only source of natural light. This purpose was achieved through an organically arranged wooden slatted panel, which allows the permeability of light and, at the same time, gives the work area increased privacy from the movement of the street.

In addition, we also added a small kitchen, which was intended to be modern and functional, and went for the remodeling of the sanitary facilities.

Finally, we chose to make the environment even more attractive by placing green elements, both in the meeting room, with a small garden with pebbles and vases, and in the team meeting area, where a terrarium of succulents becomes the base for a white acrylic board for writing.

Photography by NG Video Studio / Nélson Gonçalves

House and People Apartment | Interior Design Project in Braga, Portugal

The entrance to the apartment was marked by an excessive division of spaces, and consequent disuse of common areas. In this sense, we opted for the demolition of all the walls that enclosed the hall, the kitchen and the living and dining room, configuring an open space. The generous area also allowed the addition of a new bedroom to the right of the entrance, by dividing the existing window in two.

In addition to the demolitions and restructuring of the typology, the third major target of the remodeling was the kitchen, which was intended to be more modern, more functional and with an added aesthetic.

Finally, we bet on new furniture for living, dining and the new bedroom, and combining some decorative notes in the existing rooms, we turned this apartment into a cozy, comfortable and bright space.

Photography by NG Video Studio / Nélson Gonçalves

ALPF Apartment | Interior Design Project in Braga, Portugal

Photography by Ricardo Moura

La Folie | House with Public Space in Guimarães, Portugal

This is an architecture project named "La Folie d'Architecture", done in my second year as a student of architecture at University of Minho.
The house is designed to work as a provocative object, inspired in the soviet fantasy architecture in the beginning of the XX century, more precisely in Bernard Tschumi's folies for La Villette Park. It has a meaningful character, as well as performative. The main goal of the exercise was to conceive a house with an identity related to the space where the intervention was made, giving a special emphasis to the structural tension between form, function and image.

The three-bedroom house was projected on a pre-existent plazza, where a small chapel was being diminished as it was surrounded by parking spots. I decided to redesign the urban space around said chapel, giving it a frame. The intent was to achieve a harmonious surrounding in its proportion, making the space dynamic around the religious edifice, returning its dignity as such.

The ambiance around the chapel is meant to be to rest, to mull, to be a center of local life, just like what we would find at church's door on a sunday morning.

The house itself, with the gable roof, mimics the little chapel's morphology, and its longitudinal extension frames it. Along with the timber boards in the facades it reinforces the intent to frame, at the same time giving the house a very specific identity character.

Delirious Guimarães Apartment Building | A reinterpretation on Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles

This is an architecture project named "Delirious Guimarães", done in my second year as a student of architecture at University of Minho.
The apartment building is to be an object that arises in a somehow maladjusted scale, assuming an exceptional character in the city's landscape.

The concept is based on one of Le Corbusier's most influential late works with a significant postwar structure: the Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles. The mass housing scheme, although with an elaborate program, is structurally simple: a rectilinear ferroconcrete grid into which are slotted precast individual apartment units, like “bottles into a wine rack”.

In this project, the concept is inverted - the idea was to replace the units with empty space and to make the apartments the structure itself. Therefore, the apartment building stands out in the city, imposing itself with a very unique image.