RESIDENTIAL

APARTMENTS IN FOZ DO ARELHO

Foz do Arelho . 2017

Design year
2017
Construction year
Not built
Location
Foz do Arelho, Óbidos, Portugal
Team
Jorge Sousa Santos, Rafael Lopes
Client
Telmo Faria

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About the project

The project builds upon the footprint and volume of an existing single-family house to create a small multifamily residential ensemble composed of two distinct bodies: a building with four two-bedroom apartments, facing south, and a wall -building to the north, accommodating three four-bedroom triplex apartments.

The southern orientation structures the relationship between the dwellings and the Óbidos Lagoon, integrating the landscape as a permanent condition of the inhabited space.

The internal organisation of the two-bedroom apartments minimises interior partitions, allowing for spatial continuity and a more expansive reading of the domestic space.

The wall-building is anchored against the steep slope of the site, operating simultaneously as a retaining element, a built boundary, and a programmatic support for the triplex apartments.