The project, at first conceived as a white building with great transparency for its interior, eventually evolved to the work presented here, with the intention of a more sober gesture and a greater relationship with the urban environment in which it is inserted.

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Architects: Luís Peixoto

Location: Rua Dr. Sousa Rosa, 292, Porto, Portugal

Architect In Charge: Luís Peixoto

Team: Susana Oliveira Marques, Pedro Pacheco, Rodrigo Gorjão Henriques, Susana Monteiro

Area: 11840.3 ft2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Arménio Teixeira

Engineer: Miguel Pinho

Construction: João Dias, engineer

Consultant: Afaconsult
Client: Grupo M Caetano

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Text description provided by the architects. The project, at first conceived as a white building with great transparency for its interior, eventually evolved to the work presented here, with the intention of a more sober gesture and a greater relationship with the urban environment in which it is inserted.

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Ground floor plan

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Located in a residential area close to the coast, where the single-family housing and the low-density multi-family housing are mixed, the proposal resulted from a desire to combine the life in an apartment building with the qualities of an isolated house. With only six dwell...