Local architecture studio Fahr 021.3 has renovated a home for a young family in Porto, Portugal, drawing inspiration from the social architecture projects seen in the city in the 1960s and 70s.
The studio transformed the three-storey building for a family with two kids that wanted to live close to the city centre, keeping very little of the original structure.
The house features turquoise doors and window frames
"It was a renovation with very little use of the pre-existing structure insofar as only the stone partition walls were used, forcing the reuse of materials that did not increase the loads on the walls or put their properties and/or characteristics at risk," Fahr 021.3 principal architect Filipa Frois Almeida told Dezeen.
The ground floor of the house contains a garage as well as the living room, dining room, kitchen and a small bathroom. Bedrooms are housed on the first floor
Three bedrooms and another bathroom are housed on the first floor, while an attic room functions as a multipurpose space.
The studio looked to two contrasting types of buildings for inspiration when it was designing the 250-square-metre house.
Fahr 021.3 drew inspiration from midcentury-modern houses
"The inspiration came from the combination of two factors, the informal and traditional house from the beginning of the twentieth century and the social architecture projects characteristic of the city of Porto in the 1960s and 70s," Frois Almeida said.
"Its formal simplici...