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Ismael Santos

Ismael Santos

London, GB

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Housing II

The aim of this exercise was to retrain an urban area of Porto city. It was divided in two phases, being the second the development of one of the three sectors from a previous master plan. This master plan consisted in the rehabilitation of a specific headquarter with a new program, mixing housing, offices, shops, public spaces and parking facilities.
The developed sector resulted in the design of a closed condominium, promoting privacy, but, at
the same time, openness to a controlled environment. The singularity of this particular building is that it somehow, through the intersection of the public with the private sphere, and the development of its inner divisions and accesses, result in an hybrid form of collective and individual housing.
The main building is composed of three-storey and two-storey apartments. These both invert the
common distribution, since bedrooms are designed in the lower floor, and the common rooms, such as kitchens and living rooms in the upper one. This was an opportunity to think about the daily use of the house and question some acquainted standards.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Porto, Portugal
My Role: Individual Project