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- Architects: CREA
- Location: Porto, Portugal
- Lead Architect: André Camelo
- Collaborator: Bruno Soares
- Area: 2561.8 ft2
- Project Year: 2018
- Photographs: António Ataide
- Construction: Atlantinível — Engenharia e Construção
- Engineering: DAJ — Estudos e Projetos
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Text description provided by the architects. The house in Rua Heróis de África integrates a lot within the urban rehabilitation area of Leça da Palmeira, Oporto district, and was originally built during the 30´s, therefore reflecting with sobriety the constructive and formal options of that time.
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Our project covered not only its rehabilitation but also an extension of the pre- existing building, by means of a zinc lined volume emerging from its back façade, widely opened to the back garden, with a contemporary formal and constructive design.
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Cross section
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In addition to the house´s internal space fluidity, its scaling and light favours a wide diversity of rooms, either intimate and secluded or more ample and open to the exterior, translating or enhancing its inhabitants’ state of mind.
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