Alegria Residential Building is a project designed by MiMool Arquitectura & Design de Interiores in 2019, covers an area of 760m2 and is located in Porto, Portugal. Photography by Ivo Tavares Studio.

The intervention area is a plot with 251,42 m2 where originally two buildings, single-family houses, were in an advanced state of degradation / ruin.

The proposal was based on a project to alter and expand the buildings and their conversion into a multifamily building, trying to maintain and recover the identity that characterized them, introducing a more contemporary line connecting the two historicaltemporal moments.

The façade facing Rua da Alegria was fully recovered, introducing a raised upper floor that is the result of conceptual options based on an analysis of the existing architecture, as a contemporary element. The back elevation was reformulated volumetrically in order to obtain a coherent and cohesive language of the set.
By consolidating alignments with existing facades in contiguous buildings, the proposal seeks a more cohesive urban setting.

Considering this urban issue, the intervention focused on the reorganization of interior spaces.

At the programmatic level, the building is developed on four floors with housing use, developing 3 housing units per floor and only 2 on the 3rd floor.

The access to the building is made through Rua da Alegria, where the main door allows access to the...