12CIRP – Information Center of Romanesque – Rui Dinis | Paredes, Portugal

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 into the existing space replicating the geometry of the shape.

To this volume is subtracted the main 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.

Location:PortugalArchitect: Rui DinisArchitecture Office:Henrique Marques / Rui DinisClient: Associação de Municípios do Vale do SousaPhotographer: FG+SG - Fernando Guerra