ASVS Arquitectos Associados Lda

Informações gerais

ASVS Design Lab is a dynamic and young team of architects and designers lead by Vítor Leal Barros graduated in Oporto School of Architecture.
Since 2005, ASVS has developed several projects in Portugal and abroad, covering Urban Planning, Architecture, Interior, Product and Graphic Design.

WORK
ASVS Design Lab addresses a concept of studio whose activity goes further than the provision of architectural services, extending its scope to Design and Art, through the implementation of an art gallery in its headquarters. In parallel, ASVS develops a project of cultural dynamics integrated on the creative process of the studio. The project try to build a discussion platform that encourages the overlap of theories, concepts and ideas relating to contemporary issues of architecture and urban planning, design and arts.
ASVS’s architectural highlights are: ‘The Divine Savior Church and Parish Center’ – Oporto PT (ongoing project); ‘Diplomat Hotel’, Oporto - PT (under construction); ‘Bento de Freitas Hotel’, Vila do Conde - PT (under construction); ‘Classic King Room Unit 13 Sofitel’, Dubai - EAU (Study) and ‘LBS Mobiliário’ stores, Guimarães and Póvoa de Varzim - PT (built).

DESIGN STATEMENT
ASVS understands architecture as a discipline that generates circumstances and experiences which must conform to valid cultural and environmental values. ASVS is interested and appreciates the methods of appropriation and colonization of its projects, in search for a humanized architecture closest to the people and their needs.
ASVS develops its projects concerning to the specific conditions of each place and program. We believe in spatial clarity, versatility and constructive truth, as principles to reach an architectural identity in a globalized world.
ASVS is composed by architects and designers that embrace each project with passion. Our team loves to take new challenges providing higher design solutions with creativity, responsibility and professionalism.

CONTACT
ASVS is based in Oporto’s downtown, at Santa Catarina’s commercial street, in the heart of a city that is reinventing itself as a melting pot of creativity, history and modernity.