Casa do Conto “Arts & Residence” is located in the area of Cedofeita, in the heart of the city of Porto. The space resulted from a peculiar rehabilitation project of a bourgeois house from the 19th century. XIX, which prepared it to receive demanding and selective visitors, in an environment of strong imagery and culture.
Casa do Conto tells us a unique life story, which is, after all, the story of the changing city itself. In it, the domestic, solemn and vertical architecture, characteristic of the 19th century in Porto, stands out, marked by the scars of that time that mediated its decline and rebirth, the memory of the past and the desire for the future, the granite of the old facades and the new raw concrete of the staircase and ceilings. It is, in fact, a “fossil architecture” that gained v

Casa do Conto tells us a unique life story, which is, after all, the story of the changing city itself.


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The reconstruction project assumed a surgical role, adapting the new intervention to the architectural language already present in the house. The distribution of the program includes, as already happened, an entrance hall with vertical access to all floors of the building. In this vertical body, the hinge of the compartments, a skylight was designed to gain light from the outside and allow visual contact with the sky.
The social areas of House of Tales (reception, living room, library, dining room and garden) are spread over floors 0 and -1, with the upper floors reserved for bedrooms. The hotel's six rooms, distinguished by the graphic compositions, in low relief, that fill their ceilings, are equipped with author pieces and period furniture.
Casa do Conto seeks to contradict the usual hotel offer in the city, which is increasingly generic and impersonal, recreating local vestiges of the existing house, and thus reactivating the city's own memory.
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