A3-floor dwelling house, of 1970, with inadequate areas in common spaces and circulations, allows a unique vertical intervention. We opened the slabs, doubled the floor height and unfurleda ladder around the void.This reveals new visual and social paths. On the ground floor, the exterior green spaces,of east and west, are brought into the house and, also,when we breakthe pace horizontally we establish new visual journeys. With large glass doors framed in wood we closed the paths.

Team:

Architects: Marco dos Santos

Lead Architects: Inês Cortesão

Engineers: Jose Carlos Marques