MM House
Memory as a tool, a moderator between the old and the new.
Porto, Portugal · 2007–2009
Memory as a program.

Memory as a program
Intervening in a typical residence of the Oporto urban tissue is, by itself, a reason for the memory theme to run through our thought, as the memory, itself, begins to delineate like a program, a “tool” capable of functioning as a moderator element between the “old” and the “new”.

Two languages, chronologically distant
This project tried to recreate the habitation spaces (an element that is a container and a generator of memories by itself), preserving the identity of the architectonic object, but with a greater cosmopolitan and contemporaneous touch, searching a symbiosis between two languages chronologically distant, while intending to create an “actualized” architectonic object that belongs to the sensorial universe of this place in Oporto city.
Between the old and the new.
Full Credits
Principal Architects
- Henrique Marques
- Rui Dinis
Architects
- Vasco Giesta
- Daniel Neto
Finance Director
- Carla Duarte
Engineering
- Pórtico – Engenharia, Lda.
Photography
- FG+SG®
Recognition
Awards
- Construir 2010