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Maia, Portugal
1999-2005
Maria Guerra

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The project seeks to unravel some of the diagnosed pathologies as well as to answer the new functional programme. The proposal of creating a new external volume as been found to be important: on one hand, because it functioned as a guarantee to the functional autonomy of the two lower floors, in the other hand, as a fundamental element to the rehabilitation of the outer image resulting into a formal balance of the ensemble. This new body embraces a pre-existing volume replacing the entrance volume of the facade for the Terramonte Street providing an entrance area to the ground floor with a more appropriate scale. The side ramp allows the direct access to the lower floor which when moving away from the lateral facade, defines an exterior courtyard to the lower floor quota. This courtyard is directly connected to a kitchenette room boosting the accessibility to the exterior and increasing of natural light. At the bottom of the slope, a glazed space makes the joint of the access with the lower floor and the outdoor garden allowing bigger visual amplitude from the inside out. A further spatial fluidity can be seen at the joint of various areas.