Impare Arquitectura is an office based in Porto that provides architectural design services, complemented by technical assistance on site and support in project management and budgeting. Since 2001 it has developed projects with different programmes and scales, giving it extensive experience and the ability to adapt to the different requests it has received over the years. Since 2010, the refurbishment of buildings has been one of its favoured areas of work, including the project for the refurbishment and maintenance of the former Porto Court Building - Edifício da antiga Cadeia da Relação do Porto (2013/16), a building that has since been classified as a National Monument, the refurbishment of the Académico Futebol Clube Bar (2015), in the former Palacete do Lima, the headquarters of this club, one of the oldest sports clubs in the city of Porto, and the refurbishment of the Carcavelos Housing Complex in Matosinhos (2017/2022). In this area of Rehabilitation, we should also highlight the 2nd prize in the Competition for the Rehabilitation Project of the Tropical Greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra (2011) and, more recently, the 1st prize for the Expansion Project of the Building of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Coimbra (2019). In the area of design, we would highlight the 1st prize in the National Furniture Design Competition organised by the AIMMP, in the " Daily Design" category with the "Starp System" project (2010) and, in co-authorship, the 1st prize in the Design Competition for the development of two water bottles, organised by Águas do Porto, E M. (2015). In Portuguese, the name Impare suggests something unique, something that cannot be divided by two, something uneven and, at the same time, the inverse of inertia [in + pare], i.e. movement.
