Boavista 339, where elegance meets efficiency in Porto’s vibrant urban landscape. This modern development offers luxurious living spaces with cutting-edge design and top-tier amenities. Situated in the city of Portugal, Porto, Boavista 339 provides easy access to cultural landmarks, dining, and shopping. Ideal for both residents and investors, this property combines style and convenience, making it a prime choice for contemporary urban living.
Experience the perfect blend of sophistication and functionality at Boavista 339, an exceptional lifestyle in Porto.
The clients intended to create a residential building with studio and one-bedroom apartments. With only 88 m2, a frontage of 5.50 m facing the street, and 2.00 m wide on the rear elevation, the plot is characterized by its small size and peculiar configuration.
Considering the typology of the plot, we inserted the stairwell in the central area of the volume, freeing up the façades and thus optimizing the capture of natural light inside the apartments. There is a recurring distribution logic in this type of plot in Oporto City.
To make the most of the land, we created a complex typology of simplexes and duplexes from the second floor up and integrated a small commercial space on the first floor, enhanced by a patio on the rear elevation.
This way, we managed to reduce the amount of area used for exterior corridors (non-saleable area) by optimizing the one from the apartments, which allowed us to integrate eleven units into the 649 m2 of available area, guaranteeing a wide variety of different typologies, each with its characteristics, thus enhancing the value of the property.
Despite the variability, and to ensure easy and correct execution of the work, we took care to standardize the elements that make them up.
Considering the small size of the apartments, and to guarantee a feeling of greater spatial amplitude, we opened up the elevations completely, intertwining the openings in elegant concrete arches that draw the façade together and give it a strong personality.
The choice of the arches has a double intention here. On the one hand, they help to add elegance to the elevation by connecting the elements that make up the façade; on the other, they take advantage of the fact that the arch is the architectural element that best adapts to the shape of the body, reinforcing the empathetic character of the whole.
To guarantee the privacy of the residents, we created 0.80-meter-high flowerbeds that block the axes of vision from the street, give extra comfort to the interior of the typologies, and help to compose the elevation through the contrast between the natural elements and the concrete.
On the main elevation, the arches define access openings to small balconies, 0.60 m deep, also typical in the city of Porto.
This way, we have achieved a building that, although aesthetically pleasing, has a very distinctive character and reinterprets history, taking inspiration from the very specific logic of the typical typology in the city.
The ground floor features essential amenities, including an entrance, hall, elevator, stairs, apartment entrance, and living and dining spaces. The first through third floors maintain a similar layout, optimized for residential use, with bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens, and balconies. The fourth and fifth floors house duplex apartments, featuring additional staircases and enhanced living spaces, providing residents with a more luxurious and spacious environment.
Project name: Boavista 339
Architecture Office: PAULO MERLINI architects
Main Architect: Paulo Merlini/André Silva
Collaboration: Inês Silva/Maria Tavares, and Rita Pinho
Location: Rua de Agramonte, 339, PORTO
Year of conclusion: 2023
Total area: 650.00 m2/ 650 sq/m
Engineering: Marilia Pinto arq/eng & construção
Fluids Engineering: Marilia Pinto arq/eng & construção
Thermal Engineering: Marilia Pinto arq/eng & construção
Architectural photographer: Ivo Tavares Studio
