Residential Building
Residential Building
Paula Santos Arquitectura
YEAR
2014
LOCATION
Porto, Portugal
CATEGORY
Apartments
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The building was designed and constructed, entirely new, in 2014, after the previous building collapsed in 2011.
The new design proposes an identity that mostly concerns on creating a completely new facade with three black panels of prefabricated monolithic and heavy concrete, integrating the windows.
Each floor becomes a small apartment except for the ground floor that becomes a duplex unit with a garden.
The interiors also incorporate the traditional central stair with a skylight to all the internal spaces and circulations.
The new construction finally reflects the metric and the characteristics of the traditional buildings, representing a possible reinterpretation of the collective housing in the historical centre.
