House built in the 1940s in the Bairro Económico da Calçada dos Mestres for the Housing Development Plan of the New State. The house had many constructive pathologies and a total degradation of coatings and utilities.

The project sought to standardize the aesthetics of the two existing floors, which had already undergone a careless expansion in the 1980s, as well as designing an extension to the garden at the level of the lower floor that would be assumed as a contemporary and differentiating intervention, thus avoiding the mimicry of the existing.

As it is a house, we tried to make the most of the exterior/garden as possible. In this way we chose to create a terrace over the expansion of the lower level, thus creating a new intermediate outsider level. In this way, none of the outside space area was lost with the intervention.

The program consisted of creating conditions so that a family composed of 4 members could live comfortably inside.



The project sought to reverse existing adulterations, preserve the image of the neighborhood and the original buildings, and create excellent housing conditions in the interior.