Boavista House, Porto, Portugal| 2016, Pablo Rebelo - Pedro Pita, Portugal

Architects: Pablo Pita Architects
Design team: Pablo Rebelo, Pedro Pita, Ricardo Oliveira, Catarina Alegria
Client: Private
Photographer: José Campos

Boavista is a single-family house refurbishment in Porto. The house in ruin was as typical as it could be - narrow plot, skylight in the middle, and generous ceiling heights. With the width limitations, the dwelling extends its boundaries to the backyard.

A generous area on the ground floor is provided, setting the entire social area through one contiguous space. In the center, a light core is set, developing the stairs in different stages with different relations to this void.

The skylight theme is revisited, exploring one of the main features of these old constructions and enhancing its importance in these typologies. The height of the skylight defines an unusual residential scale allowing visual relations between the three floors.