The top two floors of the building, leased for decades, became vacant and this was an opportunity for the revaluation of the building.

As such, five apartments were created in them.

The strategy of the project was, on one hand, to maximize the reuse of existing construction elements to preserve, as much as possible, the original atmosphere of the spaces and control the costs of the operation.

On the other hand, the project focused on a strong increase in comfort, both thermal and acoustic, in all the dwellings.

However, the compatibility between the two objectives, in some cases where it seemed mutually exclusive, required the finding of ingenious and less conventional solutions, already tested in other projects.

In summary, the result is the offer of functionally updated and comfortable apartments in the city center, in the heart of Porto's current "movida".