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CL2 House in Leça da Palmeira at dusk, the lit ground floor open to the garden beneath a white upper volume

CL2 House

In a row built to repeat, a house that refused to be the same.

Leça da Palmeira, Portugal · 2017–2022
EN PT
Typology Residence
Size 406m2
Location Leça da Palmeira
Status Built
Project ID 17CL2
CL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: street view of the white upper volume with a long window above a dark entrance wall, a child running past

The refusal to repeat

CL2 House stands on a plot meant for terraced housing, in a layout designed to repeat. Where the planning foresaw uniformity, the house answered to the real life of one family rather than to the rule.

CL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: garden facade with sliding glass doors open to the living and dining areas, set between dark side walls

Solids and voids, measured

The massing grows from the alignments and levels of the place, and from a deliberate act of composition. Setbacks and projections draw solids and voids, openings and blind faces that expose here and shelter there. Privacy and light are calibrated with precision.

CL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: staircase with floating treads lit from below, rising between white walls toward a person at the topCL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: view up through the staircase void, the underside of the treads stacked beneath a strip of daylight

A staircase as spine

Inside, everything gathers around the staircase. It is the spine of the house: it links the three levels and orders how the spaces are shared. In the basement it becomes a wall; from there it turns into a sculptural body that guides movement without ever cutting it off.

CL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: shadows of deep fins cast across a white wall, light filtering in from a continuous skylightCL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: double-height atrium with armchairs, a large painting and a long low bench, the garden at the endCL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: skylight light falling across a large painting and a low bench in the atrium of the house

A skylight that pours the day

On the ground floor, arrival opens into an inhabitable, double-height atrium. A continuous skylight runs its full length and pours light with an almost tactile density, casting shadows that move through the day. This is the true atmospheric core of the house.

CL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: kitchen counter with stools in the foreground, the dining table and garden glazing beyondCL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: dining table and sofa beside full-height glazing that opens onto the lawn

From kitchen to garden, an axis of light

From the atrium, the house opens into three quadrants: kitchen, living room and the atrium itself. Between kitchen and dining runs a second axis of light, now horizontal, tying the house to the garden and carrying life beyond the built edges.

CL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: open bookshelf with coloured books seen across the atrium void behind a glass balustradeCL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: informal study framed by a white open bookshelf, a person walking past on the upper floor

A shelf that lets light through

Upstairs, the route ends in an informal study, framed by a transparent bookshelf that keeps the eye connected to the atrium below. A roof lantern filters a raw, steady light that crosses the day without shifting, lending the workspace a domestic calm.

Three floors the light crosses at once.

CL2 House in Leça da Palmeira from the garden, its upper white volume with ribbon windows above the glazed ground floor
CL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: open-plan ground floor with sofa, dining table and the lit staircase in the background
CL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: long dining table under pendant lights, glazing behind looking out to the garden
CL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: living room with a corner sofa and low cabinet, full-height glass doors open to the garden
CL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: lit floating staircase rising between narrow white walls toward the upper floor
CL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: walk-in wardrobe lined with white cabinets, a man walking toward a curtained window
CL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: bathroom with a glass shower screen, a white double basin and a wooden vanity
CL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: bedroom with a large bed facing curtained glazing that opens to a terrace
CL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: corner sofa in a white room with tall glazing showing the blue evening sky
CL2 House: living and dining areas of the Leça da Palmeira house, with the lit staircase at the far end
CL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: ground floor opened to the deck through sliding glass doors, the interior glowing at dusk
CL2 House, Leça da Palmeira: night view of the garden facade, people gathered on the deck in front of the lit living room

Full Credits

Principal Architects

  • Henrique Marques
  • Rui Dinis

Architects

  • Adriana Pacheco
  • Fred Delgado
  • Joana Leitão
  • João Ortigão
  • Marco Santos
  • Tiago Maciel

Finance Director

  • Carla Duarte

Furtinure

  • Bairro Design

Photography

  • FG+SG

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