Fontinha House

The refurbishment project focuses on a building located on Rua da Fontinha, in Porto, adapting its interior to the client's needs but without interfering with the existing volumetry.

The building, typical of Oporto, has a narrow street frontage, develops longitudinally and in the back there is a patio, having, however, as a particular feature the existence of a patio that perforates its volumetry and allows lighting the central spaces of the dwelling.

The project seeks to take advantage of these characteristics and through the use of light and the choice of materials and colors, to endow a narrow building with spaces where one doesn't have that perception. Some elements of fixed furniture adapted to the dwelling are also created, which solve functional issues and become defining elements of the spaces.