Det­ta­glio del pro­get­to ed. 2024

ance­­stral-church-of-fra­iao / Portugal

Nuno Capa

Pro­get­ti­sta	Nuno Capa
Loca­tion	Rua da Igre­ja 4715–213 — Braga
Nazio­ne	Por­tu­gal
Desi­gn Team	Nuno Fer­rei­ra Capa — Arqui­tec­tu­ra e Design
Anno	2021
Cre­di­ti Fotografici	Atti­lio Fiumarella

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Descri­zio­ne del progetto

The Ance­stral Church of Fraião (Bra­­ga-Por­­tu­­gal) is an inter­ven­tion of ana­ly­sis on the degra­da­tion sta­te of the late­st inter­ven­tions car­ried out in the begin­ning of the 20th cen­tu­ry; and the deci­sion to reveal its ori­gi­nal fea­tu­res by remo­ving the degra­ded inner and outer pain­ted cement mor­tar coatings.
The scar­ce infor­ma­tion about the for­mer con­struc­tion dro­ve to the com­mit­ment to unveil its essen­ce and the inter­ven­tions pre­viou­sly car­ried out.
The desi­gn plan is a sim­ple spa­tial orga­ni­za­tion com­po­sed of two rec­tan­gles with slightly dif­fe­rent dimen­sions –nave and main church- and an arch­way pas­sa­ge disclo­sed with the remo­val of mor­tar layers.
This sin­gle orga­ni­za­tion is revea­led in its volu­me­try: the nave over­lays on the main church, althou­gh disclo­sing brick works.
The bell tower, on the left side of the axial entran­ce of the nave, is a cement-base and clad­ding struc­tu­re from the begin­ning of the 20th century.
Thus, the work fol­lo­wed the prin­ci­ple of a con­tem­po­ra­ry inter­ven­tion set­ting out its time dimen­sion, as well as new exte­rior ther­mal insu­la­tion; acces­si­bi­li­ties; inte­rior acou­stics; lighting; new cera­mic panels and stai­­ned-glass win­do­ws; and the resto­ra­tion of the choir and of the main and side cha­pels altarpieces.
The­re was a sub­trac­tion of the pla­ster and cement layers of the faça­de, brin­ging the sto­ne back to the sur­fa­ce as a solemn act of the “begin­ning” of the works. This return resto­red the ori­gi­nal expres­sion and led to a spe­cial con­tem­po­ra­ry inter­ven­tion on ele­men­ts that could not be chan­ged as the bell tower.
If the sub­trac­tion con­cept on the faca­des is set, for the tower and for the eastern/southern ele­va­tion volu­me it is pro­po­sed the inclu­sion of a steel skin pati­na (Cor­ten steel) empo­we­ring the con­struc­tion to recei­ve a rusty layer con­fer­ring maturation.
The project’s deci­sion tra­ced the path of sub­trac­tion and aggre­ga­tion of distinc­ti­ve ele­men­ts, resul­ting in a sym­bio­sis of signi­fi­can­ce, sca­le and the beha­viour of materials.

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