The project started with an unconventional request from an open minded couple: within a very tight budget, to convert a windowless 200m2 garage into a house.

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Architects: Fala Atelier

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Design Team: Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, Ahmed Belkhodja, Mariana Silva, Camelia Petre, Clara Pailler

Consultant: Paulo Sousa

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

From the architect. The project started with an unconventional request from an open minded couple: within a very tight budget, to convert a windowless 200m2 garage into a house.
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

The proposed intervention intended the clearest reading possible of the existing structure, emphasising its strength. While the garage was careless and grey, the house is clean and white; its materiality is flat, its light is abstract. 

© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Two generous bathrooms were included behind a curved wall, where a broken corner was before; the walls and ceilings were painted in white and the floor covered in a continuous polished concrete surface; the existing skylights we?re rethought. No other change felt necessary.

© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

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