Camilo Rebelo uses concrete as the main material, which does not cover everything and maintains the contrast with the old granite stone wall, as a notary of the different layers and times through which the life of the building has passed, thus accentuating the memory of the different construction times. The complementary elements are built with stuccoed walls and painted MDF panels.
The interior façade of the new volume is built in concrete, with a traditional central door. The mezzanine level is made with a black-painted iron spiral staircase. The overhead light is dominant, and the back of the house has a winter garden inside and a small garden outside.
Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo. Photograph by Nuno Pinto.
Miraflor house by Camilo Rebelo. Photograph by Nuno Pinto.
Description of project by Camilo Rebelo
1. A warehouse was rehabilitated, exterior and interior facades and roof.
2. We conceived a traditional space, within a warehouse, without touching the exterior facades, freeing the new volume inside from the pre-existing space, generating two distinct transition sectors between old and new.
3. The interior façade of the new volume is, from the street side, a figurative composition, built in concrete with a traditional central door.
4. The inside construction is in natural concrete, with a slight contrast from the old granite stone wall, emphasizing, in this way, the different epochs of the two constructions. The complementary works are built-in walls stucco and MDF-painted panels.
5. The in-between levels it’s done with a spiral iron stair painted in black.
6. The dominant light is zenithally and points out different moments of the inner spaces.
7. In the back of the house, on the inside, there is a winter garden, and on the exterior a small garden.
