{"id":480837,"date":"2026-05-12T12:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/480837\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:29:17","slug":"abca-creates-industrial-themed-agramonte-house-in-porto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/480837\/","title":{"rendered":"ABCA creates industrial-themed Agramonte House in Porto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exposed concrete<\/a>, steel-framed windows and handmade bricks reference the formerly industrial site of Agramonte House, a home<\/a> in Portugal<\/a> designed by local studio Ant\u00f3nio Bessa Cruz Architects.<\/p>\n

The home is located on the site of a former car repair workshop next to Agramonte Cemetery in Porto, which the client had originally planned on converting into a loft-style home.<\/p>\n

When this proved structurally impossible, Ant\u00f3nio Bessa Cruz Architects<\/a> (ABCA) decided to instead replace it with a new-build home that echoed the former industrial building, informing both the material palette and insular, courtyard layout.<\/p>\n

\"AgramonteAnt\u00f3nio Bessa Cruz Architects has created Agramonte House<\/p>\n

“The space lacked any conditions for habitation or straightforward renovation, but the client wanted to convert it into a loft, so I set out to develop an architectural project inspired by that context,” founder Ant\u00f3nio Cruz told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“The main challenge was to design a dwelling that ensured abundant natural light, generous open spaces, and minimal to no visual connection with the exterior \u2013 particularly avoiding views toward the cemetery,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“The choice of materials stems from this intention to create a ‘loft’ atmosphere, achieved through the use of concrete, solid brick, steel and glass partitions, and dark oak wood.”<\/p>\n

\"Industrial-themedThe industrial-themed house replaces a car workshop<\/p>\n

To block out the nearby cemetery, the L-shaped form of Agramonte House presents an almost entirely blank face to the street, save for a row of high-level windows that draw daylight into a central living, dining and kitchen space.<\/p>\n

Flanking a large wooden dining table at the centre of this space are two warehouse-like glazed sections, with openable doors and windows framed in gridded black steel. They open onto paved, high-walled courtyards on either side.<\/p>\n

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The kitchen is wrapped by full-height cupboards finished in dark oak, while in the lounge area, a modular grey sofa is framed by exposed concrete walls opposite a large concrete staircase illuminated by clerestory windows.<\/p>\n

In the perpendicular wing of the ground floor, three bedrooms and two bathrooms sit off a brick-lined corridor, each oriented to benefit from views over one of the home’s courtyards.<\/p>\n

\"AA large concrete staircase is illuminated by clerestory windows<\/p>\n

On the smaller first floor, the main bedroom suite features a bed raised on a timber plinth and a walk-in wardrobe lined with dark oak.<\/p>\n

In the bedrooms, the exposed concrete walls on the ground floor are swapped for a mixture of white brickwork and larger blockwork walls.<\/p>\n

\"AgramonteThe ground floor opens onto courtyards<\/p>\n

For the bathrooms, a mixture of charcoal-painted blockwork and bricks is accompanied by white tiles with black grout, tubular metal fittings and black-steel screens that continue the industrial feel.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Porto, local practice Fala Atelier previously transformed a warehouse into a home<\/a> defined by large, open-plan spaces, and \u00c1lvaro Siza recently added an angular concrete extension to a renovated monastery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Alexander Bogorodskiy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exposed concrete, steel-framed windows and handmade bricks reference the formerly industrial site of Agramonte House, a home in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,29656,366,18,117,1789,19,17,11219,6642,11220,5794,10357,10358],"class_list":{"0":"post-480837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-concrete","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-houses","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-porto","20":"tag-portugal","21":"tag-portuguese-houses","22":"tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","23":"tag-sectionall","24":"tag-sectionarchitecture"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116561613672068289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}