Barata Arquitectos

B+B Architects is an architecture, urban planning and interior design studio also dedicated to real estate investment consultancy.

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Our activity has been awarded with national and international praise, notably in the areas of rehabilitation, conservation and restoration, social housing programs, school and cultural equipments and public space interventions. While we strive to achieve a guiding thread between the place and the work, we particularly care for the preservation of the patrimonial identity, ultimately contributing to the rehabilitation of disqualified areas and social utility in our projects.

We build architecture through the design of light (space), silence (programme) and gravity (construction). Together with a permanent sense of critical evaluation and experimentation in our research and practice, we're particularly sensitive to the place, its history and pre existence.

B+B architects is born out of the association of Francisco Barata Fernandes, Arquitectos Lda, founded in 1999 by the Architect and FAUP lecturer Francisco Barata Fernandes, with Manuel Barata, architect. The redefinition of the studio’s identity – structured in 2017 – is the result of a strong desire to broaden our territory and find new and bigger challenges, through an alliance of a permanent collaboration with different knowledge areas to the globalisation of our ideas on the practice of architecture.

TEAM

1995Franscisco Barata Fernandes

Lead Architect, Lecturer, Partner

2013Manuel Barata Fernandes

Senior Architect, Project Manager, Partner

2015Hugo Bessa

Senior Architect

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FUTURE PROJECTS

2018

Restaurant, Private Client, 82m2, Porto, Portugal

2018

Collective Housing Building, Private Client, 1540m2, Mangualde, Viseu

2017

Desígnios de Vila das Aves, sec. XXI,
Urban Rehabilitation Study, Vila das Aves, Portugal

2017

Law Office Dr. José Afonso, 91m2, Porto, Portugal

2017

Quinta de Sande, Housing and Rural Tourism, Private Client,
845m2, Guimarães, Portugal

2017

House Luz Valenzuela, Housing, 120m2, Porto, Portugal

RECENT PROJECTS

2017

House Sofia Arriscado, Housing, 85m2, Porto, Portugal

2017

S.Roque da Lameira / Corujeira / VCI,
Urban Rehabilitation Study, C.M.Porto; Sector A 86.720m2
+ Sector B 200.195m2, Porto, Portugal

2013

2016

House Peres de Sousa, Housing, Private Client, João Peres de Sousa,
191m2, Porto, Portugal

2015

Quinta de Mourigo, Housing, Dr. Lino Bastos, 299m2,
Celorico de Basto, Portugal

2011

2014

Páteo de S. Miguel Museum, Library, Housing, Palace,
Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, 6.445m2, Évora, Portugal

2010

2011

Quinta do Prado, Commercial Gallery, C.M. Celorico de Basto,
3.110m2, Celorico de Basto, Portugal

2009

2011

Escola Emidio Navarro, School, Parque Escolar E.P.E,
19.500m2 ,Viseu, Portugal

ARCHIVED PROJECTS

2005

FBF Architects, Office, 310m2, Porto, Portugal

2004

Vimioso Church, IPPAR, Vimioso, Portugal

2004

Marginal Ribeirinha, Detail Plan, S. Paio de Canidelo, C.M.Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal

2001

Cais das Pedras Viaducts, Porto, Portugal

2001

Cadeia da Relação Square, Porto 2001, Porto, Portugal

1998

2004

Junta de Freguesia Vila das Aves, Parish Council,
1.410m2, Vila das Aves, Portugal

1995

2006

Santa Maria da Feira Castle, Museum, IPPAR,
4.550m2, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal

1996

Quinta do Ribeiro, Housing, Private Client, 4.350m2, Santo Tirso, Portugal

1995

Massarelos Cooperative, Housing,
Cooperativa de Massarelos, 5.015m², Oporto, Portugal

2017Casa Sofia Arriscado

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2015Quinta de Mourigo

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2013Pátio de S. Miguel

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2016Casa Peres de Sousa

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2011Escola Secundária Emídio Navarro

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2011Escola Secundária Marques de Castilho

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2006Castelo de Santa Maria da Feira

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2004Igreja Matriz Vimioso

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2011Quinta do Prado

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2004Junta de Freguesia de Vila das Aves

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