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Enlargement of Ancestral Church of Frai\u00e3o, Braga, Portugal<\/strong><\/p>\n

Architect: Nuno Ferreira Capa<\/strong>
\nText: Tam\u00e1s Szentirmai<\/strong>
\nPhotos: Attilio Fiumarella<\/strong><\/p>\n

The project\u2019s decision for the Ancestral Church of Frai\u00e3o traces a path between the subtraction and the aggregation of distinctive elements, whose formal symbiosis results in the significance, scale and work of materials in the building time. The coatings and extensions made with painted cement mortars, both inside and outside the main church, reinforced the decision to uncover its original characteristics by removing the degraded coatings. The design plan presents a simple spatial organization, composed by two rectangles of slightly different dimensions \u2013 nave and main church \u2013 with an archway passage, this one revealed with the removal of mortar layers. This single organization also reveals itself in its volumetry where the nave overlays on the main church, although disclosing a slight increase in brick work. The bell tower, on the left side of the axial entrance of the nave, is a construction of cement-base structure and cladding from the beginning of the 20th century, where no pre-existence sign of the building has been revealed. The layers of plaster and cement of the fa\u00e7ade accumulated throughout the years were subtracted, bringing the stone back to the surface as a solemn act of the \u201cbeginning\u201d of the works. At the same time, this return to the basis, and which restored the original expression, led to a more contemporary intervention on those elements that could not be changed.<\/p>\n

Architecture: Nuno Ferreira Capa_Arquitectura e Design<\/strong>
\nLeading architect: Nuno Capa<\/strong><\/p>\n

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