The two houses, which remained empty for twenty years, became known by the graffiti in one of the facade ?People could leave here?. The new owner planned to build 9 apartments for rental.

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Architects: EZZO

Location: Porto, Portugal

Team: César Machado Moreira & Claudia Dias

Main Contractor: Matriz

Engineering: A400

Area: 930.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

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The two houses, which remained empty for twenty years, became known by the graffiti in one of the facade ?People could leave here?. The new owner planned to build 9 apartments for rental.
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As the internal structure of the building didn?t exist, we decided to take a radical action that would result suitable for its new purpose. All that remained standing of these old houses were its outer walls, now preserved and renovated. 

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Plan

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Moreover, the project, instead of using the enclosed shape that the old facades seemed to suggest, we chose to create, inside the facades, four isolates volumes with different shapes, which make up four small towers where the apartments overlap. Each apartment is close to 50Sqm, and consists in two floors with a living room/ kitch...