Porto Passage
Porto Passage remakes a former commercial building as guest rooms, workshops, and a public route through the historic city fabric.
Hospitality
Adaptive Reuse
Year:
2020
Client:
Morrow Hospitality Group
Duration:
24 months
Area:
2,100
SQM
Porto Passage
Porto Passage remakes a former commercial building as guest rooms, workshops, and a public route through the historic city fabric.
Hospitality
Adaptive Reuse
Year:
2020
Client:
Morrow Hospitality Group
Duration:
24 months
Area:
2,100
SQM
Porto Passage
Porto Passage remakes a former commercial building as guest rooms, workshops, and a public route through the historic city fabric.
Hospitality
Adaptive Reuse
Year:
2020
Client:
Morrow Hospitality Group
Duration:
24 months
Area:
2,100
SQM
Project team
Matthias Vogel
Partner, Urban Strategy
Camille Dubois
Associate, Interiors
Inês Carvalho
Studio Researcher
Brief
A former commercial building in Porto is remade as a sequence of guest rooms, workshops, and a public passage. The street remains the project’s first and most important room.
Site & context
The project occupies a deep, formerly commercial building in Lisbon’s older urban fabric, with a direct relationship to the street and a darker interior depth. The passage became the key to unlocking the plan.
Concept
The street continues through the building as a sequence of thresholds, courtyards, and shared rooms. Guest spaces sit alongside workshops and public uses so that hospitality remains connected to everyday city life.
Materiality & construction
Existing stone and timber are restored, while new lime surfaces, ceramic details, and steel stair elements clarify the route. The palette is deliberately close to the building’s memory but not nostalgic.
Sustainability
Reusing the commercial structure limits demolition and preserves the embodied value of the building. Natural ventilation, solar control, local finishes, and flexible rooms help the project remain useful beyond one hospitality model.
Outcome
Porto Passage turns a private building into a small piece of public city. Its most important room is the route itself, where visitors, makers, and neighbours meet in passing.
Project team
Matthias Vogel
Partner, Urban Strategy
Camille Dubois
Associate, Interiors
Inês Carvalho
Studio Researcher
Brief
A former commercial building in Porto is remade as a sequence of guest rooms, workshops, and a public passage. The street remains the project’s first and most important room.
Site & context
The project occupies a deep, formerly commercial building in Lisbon’s older urban fabric, with a direct relationship to the street and a darker interior depth. The passage became the key to unlocking the plan.
Concept
The street continues through the building as a sequence of thresholds, courtyards, and shared rooms. Guest spaces sit alongside workshops and public uses so that hospitality remains connected to everyday city life.
Materiality & construction
Existing stone and timber are restored, while new lime surfaces, ceramic details, and steel stair elements clarify the route. The palette is deliberately close to the building’s memory but not nostalgic.
Sustainability
Reusing the commercial structure limits demolition and preserves the embodied value of the building. Natural ventilation, solar control, local finishes, and flexible rooms help the project remain useful beyond one hospitality model.
Outcome
Porto Passage turns a private building into a small piece of public city. Its most important room is the route itself, where visitors, makers, and neighbours meet in passing.
Project team
Matthias Vogel
Partner, Urban Strategy
Camille Dubois
Associate, Interiors
Inês Carvalho
Studio Researcher
Brief
A former commercial building in Porto is remade as a sequence of guest rooms, workshops, and a public passage. The street remains the project’s first and most important room.
Site & context
The project occupies a deep, formerly commercial building in Lisbon’s older urban fabric, with a direct relationship to the street and a darker interior depth. The passage became the key to unlocking the plan.
Concept
The street continues through the building as a sequence of thresholds, courtyards, and shared rooms. Guest spaces sit alongside workshops and public uses so that hospitality remains connected to everyday city life.
Materiality & construction
Existing stone and timber are restored, while new lime surfaces, ceramic details, and steel stair elements clarify the route. The palette is deliberately close to the building’s memory but not nostalgic.
Sustainability
Reusing the commercial structure limits demolition and preserves the embodied value of the building. Natural ventilation, solar control, local finishes, and flexible rooms help the project remain useful beyond one hospitality model.
Outcome
Porto Passage turns a private building into a small piece of public city. Its most important room is the route itself, where visitors, makers, and neighbours meet in passing.
Stats
By the numbers
Five years of operation, measured across all seasons.
Carbon avoided
Emissions avoided by leaving things alone
Lowest recorded
CO₂e/m², by repairing rather than replacing
Energy in use
Below the model, in a sector that overshoots
Stats
By the numbers
Five years of operation, measured across all seasons.
Carbon avoided
Emissions avoided by leaving things alone
Lowest recorded
CO₂e/m², by repairing rather than replacing
Energy in use
Below the model, in a sector that overshoots
Stats
By the numbers
Five years of operation, measured across all seasons.
Carbon avoided
Emissions avoided by leaving things alone
Lowest recorded
CO₂e/m², by repairing rather than replacing
Energy in use
Below the model, in a sector that overshoots
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Head of Design
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Head of Design
Sena Okafor
Head of Design
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