Architect Daniel Zamarbide worked with Leopold Banchini to design a pared-back Lisbon house with glass-walled rooms overlooking a full-height living space, as his own home.
Zamarbide and Banchini, who ran a studio together called Bureau A until 2017, collaborated on the design of the house that is tailored to suit his family's lifestyle.

Zamarbide named project Dodge House in reference to American architect Irving Gill's Dodge House in California, which combined a modernist sensibility with elements borrowed from the architecture of the Spanish missions.
The property squeezes three bedrooms plus living spaces onto a footprint of less than 40 square metres in the Portuguese city's Mouraria neighbourhood.

Although it is a new-build house, the architects replicated the facade of an abandoned property that previously occupied the site. Dodge House's predominantly opaque facade evokes the shuttered openings of disused buildings that have become common in Portugal's major cities since the economic crisis that hit the country ten years ago.

The derelict facade was the only remaining part of the existing building. By echoing the rhythm and window dimensions of the original house, the new addition maintains a sense of connection with its historic surroundings.

It's rear facade opens onto a cobbled courtyard and is designed as a calm and neutral intervention within the otherwise eclectic context of the surrounding urban fabric.
Zamarbide described this facade as a "white ...