Villa Lóios Apartments III By casa do Conto

Villa Lóios refers us to the memory of nineteenth-century communal villages of working or bourgeois occupation, which we find in the historical centers of industrialized cities. This Villa is the result of the association of five contiguous buildings, in the heart of Porto - between the Largo dos Lóios and the Church of the Clérigos -, which maintains the matrix, form and style characteristic of each of the eras in which they were built. from the 18th to the 21st century).
Two of these formerly ruined lots now make way for a contemporary 9-meter glass-fronted building whose design "dialogues" with the various surrounding façades, and from which, through a common staircase and elevator, it is possible to access the other buildings and their apartments. This staircase and elevator are linked to a communal and tree-lined courtyard-yard, ensuring intimacy and privacy to the various floors around it.
The apartments are adapted to the historical and architectural characteristics of each building. Along Rua de Tras, in the new building, Villa I and Vila II apartments open onto the neighboring façades, dominated by brightly colored glazed tiles and wooden window frames. On the corner of Rua de Tras, the Villa III duplex apartment overlooks Largo dos Loios, benefitting from a long terrace overlooking the city. In the narrow lane of the Lóios, the apartment Villa IV looks for a frank relationship with the street light and with the leafy view on the roofs of Morro da Sé. The same applies to interior materials: in Villa I and Villa II apartments, new concrete floors and ceilings are shown, in contrast to service spaces - kitchens and bathrooms - located in lacquered wooden "boxes" which share the common rooms of the rooms. These boxes are lined with Portuguese handmade tiles from inside. In the Villa III and Villa IV apartments, the old wooden structures of the roofs are evident, again in contrast to the new service boxes in lacquered wood. In Villa Lóios, past and present coexist in a patrimonial symbiosis