Information Centre of the Romanesque | Spaceworkers

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Information Centre of the Romanesque | Spaceworkers

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  • Project Name: Information Centre of the Romanesque
  • Practice: Spaceworkers
  • Completion year: 2012
  • Gross Built up Area: 100 sqm
  • Project Location: Paredes
  • Country: Portugal
  • Lead Architects/Designer: Henrique Marques, Rui Dinis
  • Design Team: Rui Rodrigues, Sérgio Rocha, Rui Miguel
  • Photo Credits: FG+SG
  • Others: Finance Director: Carla Duarte - Cfo, Engineer: Simetria Vertical, Lda
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Excerpt: Information Centre of the Romanesque is a public space designed by an architectural and design firm, Spaceworkers. The proposed space appears as a “house inside a house”. A massive volume landed in the existing space replicating the geometry of the shape. To this volume is subtracted the central area resulting in a kind of square, a point of reunion, separating the different functions of the space.

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[Text as submitted by Architect] Preserving the identity of the site and the characteristics of the building in question gave us the motto for intervention. The proposed space appears as a “house inside a house”. A massive volume landed in the existing space replicating the geometry of the shape.

Information Centre of the Romanesque | Spaceworkers
© FG+SG
Information Centre of the Romanesque | Spaceworkers
© FG+SG

To this volume is subtracted the central area resulting in a kind of square, a point of reunion, separating the different functions of the space. The largest of the two volumes houses an informal auditorium, while the second contains an information desk with a storeroom and toilet tucked behind.

Information Centre of the Romanesque | Spaceworkers
© FG+SG
Information Centre of the Romanesque | Spaceworkers
© FG+SG

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