PER Social Housing Program
Rua da Seara
Matosinhos
1995 - 2004
The plot where the building is located, albeit within the city perimeter, keeps a part of the characteristics of the urban periphery.
As result of the several transformations that tend to remove its suburban character, we can testify the crossing between a rural world in regression and the fragile appearance of an urban fabric with evident difficulties of articulation.
The chosen location of the buildings tries to favour permeability in both axis, balancing the materialization of the street front with the orientation of the plot’s natural slope – it descends in the South-West direction with good solar orientation and the sea in the horizon.
In the presence of the supporting walls and slopes which act as reminders of the true dimension of the plot and of the increased light allowed by the space between the blocks, the common spaces get a bigger sense of unity.
The rhythmic succession of the housing blocks is in herself also an important tool in the organisation of the plot.
