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Living Famalicão

This is a project by dEMM arquitectura and it is located at Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal. Project's program: Multi-family housing. There are nine images for Living Famalicão.

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Project details

Project name: Living Famalicão
Location: Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal
Program: Multi-family housing
Area: Constructed Area: 11.000 m2
Year: Project: 2006 • Construction: 2008
Project by: dEMM arquitectura
Team: Principal designer: Isabela Neves • Collaborators: Manuel Pais Vieira and Paulo Fernandes da Silva
Others: Structural Engineering: Gepec • Contractor: J. Camilo

Project images

Designer's statement

Living Famalicão is located on a traditionally commercial street in the North Portugal small town of Famalicão.

As a consolidated urban area, the façade is brought to the plot limit, reinforcing the street profile.

The building is composed by five shops on the ground floor and 35 apartments spread over 6 floors above.

The apartments share a common atrium, in the ground floor, from where three vertical accesses distribute to the upper floors displaced along an open corridor to the interior garden.

The rectilinear regularity of the façade geometry, evidencing the balconies with shadows, is contrasted by the projection of the interior area of three apartments, characterizing the street corner with a sculptural approach.