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Architects: nu.ma | unipessoal

Location: Matosinhos, Portugal

Architect In Charge: Nuno Silva

Area: 220.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

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Civil Engineer: Rita Espanha, eng.

Electric Engineer : José Carlos Lopes, eng.

Mechanical Engineer : Pedro Simões, eng.

Construction: Moura & Dias, construções

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The siteThe lot, where the house is inserted, have a non-regular shape, longitudinal and perpendicular to the street Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Matosinhos. In a consolidated urban area, the surrounding buildings, are, in most of the cases, buildings with a ground floor and attic. These constructions for their constructive time presents nonconventional height.
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The urban density of this road presents buildings with different temporal characteristics, and for that reason, with different constructive approaches, with different elevations, materials, etc? a result of the growth andevolution of this road.

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Formal and functional constraintsIt was important to keep the alignment of the house with the existing buildings in...