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Renovation of the restaurant of Chef Miguel Reis in Trofa, Porto Porto / Portugal / 2020

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architecture: N O A R Q – José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira
collaborators:  arch. Gaia Ferraris – project manager; des. Mirna Mikulic, arch. Gloria Herranz, arch. Sruthy Lakkimsetty. | 


 


There was there a buffet with tradition at lunchtime. A pleasant little square, parodaxally surrounded by modest housing, with balconies ornamented by the prosaic habits of the locals, shared by Chef Miguel Reis. A landscape of habits is not enough for the restless spirit and the aspiration of the food lovers – to welcome, to serve and delight. 


We found two uncharacteristic commercial spaces, cleaned in white, with a rectangular plant. Thus, animated by half a dozen bucolic motives. Only a diagonal extension hid the toilets. Empty, devoid of intention, this is the image I retain of it.


 There was no budget for adjectives, the only possible one was “worthy”. Dignity is the quality of what is honest, appropriate and noble.


We wanted to re-do with the expression of memories. As in food, the intense taste of simple things. One taste at a time. The tradition renewed. The expressiveness of a mortar, without more, would be sufficiently authentic. Pavement, wall and vaulted ceilings, like a conventual cafeteria, would be the same surface executed with the plastic expression of the cement paste, structured on dry pine wood trusses. The tables are pine tables, as they have always been in taverns. Thick, firm, hard, eternal but soft to the touch. The legs of the tables in thin black steel profiles, merged with the profiles of the black chairs.


 


 


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Funcionava ali um buffet com tradição na hora do almoço. Uma praceta agradável, paradoxalmente rodeada de habitação modesta, de varandas ornamentadas pelos hábitos prosaicos dos locais, partilhados pelo Chef Miguel Reis. Paisagem de hábitos não suficiente ao espírito inquieto e à aspiração de quem ama a mesa - acolher, servir e deleitar. 
Encontrámos dois espaços comerciais incaraterísticos, higienizados de branco, de planta retangular. Assim, animados por meia dúzia de motivos bucólicos.  Apenas uma extensão diagonal escondia os sanitários. Vazio, desprovido de intenção, é a imagem que retenho.


Não havia orçamento para adjetivos, senão o único possível, digno. A dignidade é a qualidade do que é honesto, apropriado e nobre. Fazer de novo com a expressão das memórias. Como na comida, o sabor intenso das coisas simples. Um sabor da cada vez. A tradição inovada.


 A expressão duma argamassa, sem mais, seria suficientemente autêntica. Pavimento, parede e tetos abobados, como um refeitório conventual, seriam uma mesma superfície executada com a expressão plástica da pasta cimentícia, estruturada sobre treliças de madeira de pinho seco. As mesas são tabuadas de pinho, como sempre foram as tabernas. Espessas, firmes, duras, eternas mas de toque suave. Os pés das mesas em finos perfis negros de aço, fundem-se com os igualmente perfis das cadeiras negras.

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    architecture: N O A R Q – José Carlos Nunes de Oliveiracollaborators:  arch. Gaia Ferraris – project manager; des. Mirna Mikulic, arch. Gloria Herranz, arch. Sruthy Lakkimsetty. |    There was there a buffet with tradition at lunchtime. A pleasant little square, parodaxally surrounded by modest housing, with balconies ornamented by the prosaic habits of the locals, shared by Chef Miguel Reis. A landscape of habits is not enough for the restless spirit...

    Project details
    • Year 2020
    • Work started in 2019
    • Work finished in 2020
    • Main structure Reinforced concrete
    • Client Chef Miguel Reis – Hora do Almoço
    • Status Completed works
    • Type Restaurants / Interior Design
    • Websitehttps://www.noarq.com/hora
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