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Santa Isabel House by Ricardo Bak Gordon
Perhaps what’s most important in this project is the desire to refer to the city that exists within the city, the places inside the city, whose matrix anchored in street, square and block it originated. There are many such places in Lisbon, more or less old, deeper or more open to the sky, but always very impenetrable. This other city, so often abandoned and unhealthy, can be recovered, giving way to another network of places, like overlapping meshes that can constitute a regeneration of the urban fabric.
All this concerns the project for two houses built in the midst of a block in Santa Isabel, a site with an area of about 1000 square meters previously occupied by semi-industrial sheds and with access via a small store open to the street. The programe mandated the construction of two houses, a bigger one for the family’s daily life and another two-bedroom one to be rented. All of this was to be built in the area of about 400 square meters for which construction was authorized, replacing the existing sheds. The site was notable in that the empty space stood out with respect to the built, and for the vertical surroundings embodied in the façades of the neighbouring buildings, which would suggest a very horizontal building, in contrast.
Santa Isabel House, Lisbon, Portugal, by Ricardo Bak Gordon, Photography by FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra, via: archdaily
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