Here are Contemporary Restaurant and Tea House located in Porto, Portugal which the granite peak of Antas in the south side facing the valley of Campanhã and designed by Francisco Portugal e Gomes. The ground floor is organized through coordination between the dining room adjacent to the restaurant, near the street, and the service area nearest to the court against which communicates with the garden. The movement area that corresponds to the extension of the existing building has an interior staircase, which ensures plenty of light in the gallery basement, and the spatial and functional relationship between the two floors.
The new building of the house of tea, designed with a device in white concrete and black slate of Valongo, intends both, to evoke the memory of ancestral “Dolmens” and the “bench” towards the great game, manifesting itself in wide balance coverage across the light. This device is formally converted into a pergola that produces shade in the glazing and, in conjunction with and the building structure of the house of tea, fills the void of the lower volumetries, minimizes the impact of higher buildings nearby and creates a protected environment the might favour the stillness and contemplation.
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