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A place that plays with curved walls, light and Portuguese tiles to seamlessly optimize available space.
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Preserving high ceilings, a patio and some other striking but misplaced features, while solving technicalities through a dome, resulted in a not so typical guesthouse.
Welcome to the neighbourhood where house expansions destroy their gardens. With a bit of digging and taking advantage of the attic, we found room for an extra floor. The house expanded inside, saving the garden.
The amazing details of the front rooms framed the city and river and needed to be restored. New construction focused on the backstage, with a kitchen at the heart of the house and a refurbished attic with an even higher view.
When a thousand different rotten materials were removed from the fake ceiling a wooden sky was revealed. The apartment is an open space accomplished by demolishing a couple of walls. Everything else was kept... With a little twist... With a little repositioning...
A linear social block that releases space for a garden between itself and existing buildings. Instead of exterior walls, fixed polycarbonate panels are protected by a concrete grid and fill interior spaces with light and dancing shadows.