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
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
2015Quinta de Mourigo
2013Pátio de S. Miguel
2016Casa Peres de Sousa
2011Escola Secundária Emídio Navarro
2011Escola Secundária Marques de Castilho
2006Castelo de Santa Maria da Feira
2004Igreja Matriz Vimioso
2011Quinta do Prado
2004Junta de Freguesia de Vila das Aves