Pousada de Santa Maria do Bouro
Eduardo Souto de Moura | Amares
Location
Rua do Terreiro, Bouro, Amares
Date of construction
12-18th century
Dates
1989-1997
Authroship
EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA
Client
Empresa Nacional de Turismo (Enatur)
Original use
Monastery
New use
Hotel
Collaboration
Manuela Lara, Marie Clement, Ana Fortuna, Pedro Valente
Archaeology
Luís Fontes
Technical consultancy
G.O.P. (structural and electrical engineering)
Contractor
Soares da Costa
This project aims to adapt, or rather, to make use of the stones available to build a new building. It is a new building, in which various assertions and functions intervene (some already registered, other still to be constructed), it is not a reconstruction of the building in its original form.
For this project, the ruins are more important than the “Monastery”, since they are an available, open and easy-to -manipulate material, just as the building was during its history.
This attitude is not meant to establish an exception, by attempting to achieve the originality of a manifesto, but rather to abide by an architectural rule, more or less unchanged in the course of time.
For this project, we tried to reach lucidity between form and program during the “design process”. Faced with two possible paths, we chose to reject the pure and simple consolidation of the ruin as a contemplative object, opting instead for the introduction of new materials, uses, forms and functions “entre les choses” as Corbusier used to say. The “picturesque” is a question of fate, not the intent of a program..
Eduardo Souto de Moura
For this project, the ruins are more important than the “Monastery”, since they are an available, open and easy-to -manipulate material, just as the building was during its history.
This attitude is not meant to establish an exception, by attempting to achieve the originality of a manifesto, but rather to abide by an architectural rule, more or less unchanged in the course of time.
For this project, we tried to reach lucidity between form and program during the “design process”. Faced with two possible paths, we chose to reject the pure and simple consolidation of the ruin as a contemplative object, opting instead for the introduction of new materials, uses, forms and functions “entre les choses” as Corbusier used to say. The “picturesque” is a question of fate, not the intent of a program..
Eduardo Souto de Moura
@ David Ordoñéz, Eleonora Fantini
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