The home has always been a central theme in architecture.
Designing a dwelling is also building a dwelling. Living and building are thus in a relationship of means and ends. Thinking in this way, we think of building and living as two separate activities, which is still an accurate representation. But isn't building in itself dwelling? The manifestation of man in the face of the will of the land and its respective context?

Interpreting this same context, and emerging from a pre-existence that dates back to another time, the dwelling establishes a dialog between two times. Past and future are combined to ensure a new formal and functional logic, adapting to the new needs of living. Formally, the house expresses a simple and contemporary language. Its body is broken up to better suit the morphology, thus distinguishing the different areas of the dwelling.
The front elevation, adjacent to the road frontage, maintains the original layout of the house. The rear elevation will articulate the decrease in ground level, assuming two floors and an attic. On a programmatic level, the upper floors house the more intimate rooms, the bedrooms. On the first floors, the project intends to open them up to the ground, establishing the living room and its common areas.

“(...) Houses are like people. The phrase is banal, others are more far-fetched. But it's a kind of second skin. I mean, people have an inner soul, but they also have an outer soul. It's no coincidence that when I do this or that, I'm bothering you and not touching you. So there's an atmosphere, an energy in which people see themselves in their identity. Both in their bodies, in their clothes and in their houses. So the houses are like people: different, manipulable, they move.” Souto Moura