Martires Housing Block | Didier Fiúza Faustino // Mésarchitecture
Leiria / Portugal / 2024
The project, which consists of seven apartments, is set within a renovated house and a new, semi-circular extension and seeks to disrupt domestic rituals to question everyday behaviours. The building makes manifest and negotiates some of the major tensions of urban housing, such as the interplay between protection or introspection and openness. It aims to reframe how bodies inhabit the city through our domestic structures. To a certain extent, its large windows and bold façade put the act of living on a stage – one performance alongside all the dramas of the city unfolding at once.
Photography: Francisco Nogueira
The project, which consists of seven apartments, is set within a renovated house and a new, semi-circular extension and seeks to disrupt domestic rituals to question everyday behaviours. The building makes manifest and negotiates some of the major tensions of urban housing, such as the interplay between protection or introspection and openness. It aims to reframe how bodies inhabit the city through our domestic structures. To a certain extent, its large windows and bold façade put the...
- Year 2024
- Work started in 2018
- Work finished in 2024
- Status Completed works
- Type Apartments
- Websitehttps://didierfaustino.com/
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