The work consisted on upgrading and refurbishing the building, to provide it a more efficient architectural performance and fill the need of their owners of taking advantage of an architectural typology that best fits their way of living.
The typological restructuring longed and requested by the inhabitants of this building is the motto for all the plastic and functional mutation, which, without losing sight of the economic aim, defines the way we approached the whole transformation.
The functional principles that governed the project are:
• Better use of the built area of the building;
• More lighting comfort, and
• Increased thermal comfort.
While refurbishing interior space, exterior operations consisted on the of new openings facing south / west, benefiting the lighting and heating of spaces, while promoting a clear separation between the two floors that define the building volume.
These works were more intense in the south facade where the creation of a balcony in its entirety by leveling the existing eave, allows the definition of a plane projection relative to the ground floor, once again reinforcing the separation between the two floors.
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Nuno Pinheiro & António Teixeira
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