Casa Sodade / estudio treze.

Text description supplied by the architects. The rehabilitation of Casa Nho Padre, now Sodade – Casa da Memória, stems from a deep reflection on the significance of preserving and enhancing the identification and historical past of Cabo Verde. Built within the nineteenth century, throughout a interval of financial prosperity for Boa Vista, the constructing stands on Amílcar Cabral Street, an city frontage of outstanding morphological coherence, characterised by high-quality Portuguese colonial structure. This historic and concrete context, along with the home’s sturdy symbolic significance throughout the native collective reminiscence, types the conceptual basis of the challenge. The intervention is structured round three guiding ideas: safeguarding the constructing’s structural and formal integrity, revaluing its unique constructive language, and activating it by a brand new cultural and gastronomic program able to enhancing its areas with out compromising their authenticity.