架构师提供的文本描述。该项目包括对吉马朗历史地区的两座建筑物进行翻修，目的是将其用作商业空间和出租公寓，改变现有的类型，但保留原有的用途。这些建筑物位于“Largo do Trovador”地带，这是一个介于“Alameda de S.Dmaso”和“Couros”地带之间的过渡地区，在很大程度上这一地区仍然保留着其原有城市特征的明确结构。

Text description provided by the architects. The project consists in a renovation of two buildings in the historic area of Guimarães, with the intent of using them for commercial spaces and renting apartments, altering the existing typology but keeping the original use. The buildings are located at “Largo do Trovador”, a transitioning area between the “Alameda de S. Dâmaso” and the “Couros” zone, for the most part this area still keeps the defining structure of its original urban characteristics.

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街道上有商店空间，上层有居住空间，这两座建筑都与当时的环境相吻合，具有城市特色。

With store space on the street floor and habitation space in the upper ones both buildings were right in line with the surroundings of their time, assuming an identity of urban eminency.

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最大建筑的主要外墙是花岗岩砌体，从地面一直到第一层的一半，从这一点一直到顶部，它是用木头和石膏做的，没有任何主要的装饰元素。在最小的一层中，一楼采用相同的花岗岩砌体，其余的外墙采用木材和石膏结构。

The main façade of the biggest building is made of granite masonry from the ground up until half of the first floors, from this point up until the top it’s made of wood and plaster, without any major decorative element. In the smallest one the same granite masonry was used on the ground floor, with the rest of the façade using a wood and plaster structure.

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一个明确的目标是改变现有的类型，以满足当前的需要，改变多个公寓的居住空间，同时保持底层的商业用途。这种转变仅仅是在类型学上，它没有影响建筑的体积、结构特征、主立面、屋顶或原始楼梯。

A clear objective was to alter the existing typology to fulfill the needs of the present, transforming the habitation space in multiple apartments while keeping the ground floors for commercial use. This transformation was merely in typology and it didn’t affect either the volume, structure, construction characteristics, main façade, rooftops or original stair case of the building.

在最大建筑的顶层，也就是原来居住的宏伟起居室所在的地方，我们保留了公认建筑价值的元素。这些年来，建筑物的内部经历了一些变化，这一次，另一种解释是为了响应预定义的程序而设计的。

On the top floor of the biggest building, where the grand living room of the original habitation was located, we preserved elements of recognized architectonic value. The interiors of the building suffered some transformations through the years, this time another interpretation was designed to respond to a predefined program.

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