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Project • By Volume Architecture Lisbon Studio • Private Houses

Casa Poliedro I

The Poliedro house sits within a dense urban fabric, characterised by narrow, small plots. The project is based on three essential premises: suitability to the program, responding to the comfort needs of everyday family life; the creation of a ground floor with the greatest possible openness, open to the exterior space, countering the perception of a small plot; and the assurance of privacy on the upper floor, through a series of outdoor spaces, shielding them from direct observation from the street and surrounding urban context. Francisco Nogueira Francisco Nogueira Its formal expression results from the maximum permitted volume, combined with the idea of the archetypal house; relating to the construction on the adjoining plot,... More

Project • By Volume Architecture Lisbon Studio • Apartments

Casa Fronteira - Fronteira House

Casa Fronteira is the result of a 1950’s double-storied flat refurbishment, located in one of the first housing co-operative buildings in Lisbon, designed by architect Jorge Albuquerque. @do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento Starting from a functionalist internal organization, according to a model system with narrow spaces, the intervention added greater flexibility and spatial dynamics to the interior, allowing it to be used more spontaneously and adaptable to new ways of living.  @do mal o menos - Eduardo Nascimento It focused on maintaining the noble’s characteristics of modernist interiors by rehabilitating existing materials, qualifying them with the use of new materials such as Kambala wood, tiles with dark... More