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House MB
A Cascais house is reconfigured around a shared ground floor and courtyard, with pale surfaces, timber-framed glazing and a more coherent arrangement of rooms above.
The courtyard extends the ground-floor living space outdoors.
- Practice
- Nuno Nascimento Arquitectos
- Photographer
- Francisco Nogueira
- Type
- House renovation
- Bedrooms
- Three
- Architects
- Nuno Nascimento Arquitectos and Francisco Tojal Arquitectos
The place
Cascais, Portugal
House MB reworks an existing house in Cascais. Designed collaboratively by Nuno Nascimento Arquitectos and Francisco Tojal Arquitectos, the renovation replaces a fragmented layout with a ground-floor living space connected to the courtyard.
Wide timber-framed doors bring the outdoor space into view and allow the living room to extend towards the terrace. Pale walls and floors create continuity between rooms, while a low hearth and carefully framed openings give the interior its own points of focus.
Upstairs, the plan accommodates three bedrooms and two bathrooms. A curved stair and circular window add a different scale to the route between floors. The project keeps the identity of the existing house while making its interior more connected and useful.
A timber door set within a pale entrance recess.
A low hearth runs along the living-room wall.
The renovated house retains its two-storey street presence.
The glazed opening brings the courtyard tree into the living room.
A circular window lights the curved stair.
Credits
- Architecture
- Nuno Nascimento Arquitectos
- Architecture
- Francisco Tojal Arquitectos
- Photography
- Francisco Nogueira
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