This project—two houses for two brothers—grows from an intuitive and tactile design process, where form is first explored through the physical manipulation of simple abstract models. Overlapping walls and elongated volumes are arranged in parallel, creating an interplay of mass and void. These primitive relationships become the structural and spatial character of the final proposal.

From these conceptual operations emerge two concrete houses that coexist beneath a single, continuous roof. Its inclination is not an arbitrary design choice: it is directly inherited from an existing farm building on the plot, whose geometry becomes a contextual anchor. By adopting and extending the roof slope, the new architecture embeds itself within the site’s history, transforming a rural remnant into the generative logic of the project.

Beneath this large roof, the concrete walls and volumes retain the clarity of the initial models. They slide past and overlap each other, forming courtyards, thresholds, and sheltered exterior rooms. Each house develops as a sequence of suspended or extruded concrete elements that frame light and views.

The double-height moments created by the roof geometry produce shifting light conditions throughout the day, while the interplay of heavy concrete and thin roof planes emphasizes a balance between this different spaces.

Though the two houses remain clearly distinct, their shared roof and common structural logic bind them into a single gesture. The project becomes a built interpretation of the relationship between two brothers: two parallel figures, connected through one shared element.

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STATUS: concept phase

LOCATION: Matosinhos (PT)

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER : PN10

MEP: PN10