Luísa Penha

duas portas

Penha, Luísa
Dal Co, Francesco

Within this frontage lies Duas Portas, the residence Luísa Penha created by transforming one of these existing houses. The name – “Two Doors” – comes from her central design gesture: keeping the original entrance of the old dwelling and turning the second, once the access to a store, into a “virtual” door framed in granite but permanently closed. The project does not seek to stand out from its surroundings but to interpret them from within, recognising in their limits and conventions a kind of quiet elegance and restraint.