Architecture studio Fala Atelier has converted a former clothing factory in the town of Abragão, Portugal, into a block of six bare apartments.
Fala Atelier worked with the existing volume as much as possible, creating open-plan housing they described as "naked" apartments. These can then be altered by residents as they see fit.

"The space is built with the simplest materials and details, with a severe scarcity of means," Filipe Magalhães, partner at Fala Atelier, told Dezeen.
The simple white-rendered volume surrounded by greenery was originally built to resemble housing in order to better fit in with its context.

"The original building had very little 'factory' features ? it was supposed to resemble a house," explained Magalhães. "Via a certain 'industrial' set of decisions, the housing block now feels more like a factory than ever before."

Each of the block's three floors houses a mix of two and three bedroom apartments, connected via a common stairwell, each consisting of a large living space onto which the bedrooms open.

The clear grid of both the interior and the facade has been retained, and the internal concrete structure exposed to become both a visually unifying element and one around which the plan is arranged.

"The axis, off centre due to the different sizes of machines that originally occupied the space, provided a grid. From that point, geometry ruled over the general arrangement," said the architec...