Casa dos Oleiros in Castelo Branco, Portugal | Paulo Martins Architecture & Design

Paulo Martins Architecture & Design Studio designed Casa dos Oleiros in the historic centre of Castelo Branco, Portugal aiming to create an archetype starting a new trend in the urban occupancy of city namely an urban revitalisation based on city centre’s habitation by younger age groups making it more dynamic and lively.

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This house is located in Castelo Branco, in the old part of the city, which has been in an increasing state of decline in recent years.
In response to this trend, this project was aimed at taking on the contours of an archetype, in an attempt to establish a trend in the urban occupancy of the city: urban revitalisation of the historic centre and its occupancy by younger age groups, making this part of the city more dynamic once more.


In line with this intention, the project consisted of maintaining the original appearance of the house on the outside, while inside, the spaces were readapted to current standards of comfort and living, marked by contemporary minimalism.


In project terms, the house has 2 floors and a mezzanine. The ground floor is set aside for rest areas, for lighting reasons, and the upper floors are for the social areas. On these upper floors, which are accessed via the original building staircase, we restored the spatial amplitude of the roof, giving us quite a generous floor-to-ceiling height and letting the light reflect on the white ceilings and walls, flooding into the entire space that had once been enclosed.

A skylight was added to the mezzanine, giving you a view of the castle from your workstation and reminding you that this contemporary space is filled with history.

In terms of materials, we wanted the project to be light, casual and welcoming, using simple, yet high quality, materials, painting the walls and ceilings in light shades and finishing off floors and furniture in Scots pine.

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Facts & Credits
Project name  Casa dos Oleiros
Location  Castelo Branco, Portugal
Year of conclusion  2020
Total area  110m2
Architecture Office  Paulo Martins Architecture & Design
Architectural photography  Ivo Tavares Studio

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