P O R T O c e n á r i o c a f é
Project: Bar Renovation
Author: José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira, Arq.; Francisco Guedes de
Carvalho, Arq.; Jorge Pinto Vieira, Arq.; Paulo Costa, Arq.
Collaborators: Rui Cardoso, Arq.; Manuel Sousa Vieira, Arq.
Constructors: Francisco Bernardo, Eng.; Fernando Lopes, Eng.; Raul
Serafim, Eng.
Graphic Design: Ricardo Sapage
Location: Porto
Area: 90.21 sqm
Year: 2004-2005
... Food does not give, I want to sell glasses!
To the 7th life, the tiny restaurant reincarnated in a bar. From the old dining room, it takes advantage of the manager, the commercial license and a very small 50 sqm. The programmatic complexity has been emptied from the technical, spatial and legal point of view. Cup, counter, room and toilets.
Single question, incidentally: the “target”.
They named it Scenery Harbor ... pretentious, risky! In the afternoon, peculiar ...
The building to be stranded on the dock is testimony to an ancient place.
The guts are not only old as the body, they have undergone mistreatment, they suffer from prolonged illness.
In sight, poorly applied prostheses, kitch abuse and falsehood everywhere.
“It’s not handsome!” That’s not how you treat an old man!
There is no money for the old man’s ambitions, let us treat him with health ... And there is no money.
Restoration is out of the question, but archeology is evidence and history is the privilege of a few.
