Casa do Carmo
The property is part of the protected area of the 18th-century Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, located within the elongated block that separates it from the old fairground. It corresponds to a plot resulting from the composition of a rectangle measuring 4.5 by 18 meters to the south, with a square measuring 14 meters on each side to the north.
The group of buildings was in ruins, preserving only the south façade, characteristic of the beginning of the last century, and the courtyard wall to the north. The solution found involves "constructing" the difference in levels existing between the rectangle and the square, and converting it into a half-floor stair module which, repeated in the transition area, organizes the distribution of the rooms vertically.
The smaller courtyard occupies two of the rooms, previously devoid of light, in the rectangle, where the pre-existing typology of distribution through a side corridor is preserved.
The larger courtyard results from the superimposition of the elongated rectangle and the square, which frequently becomes a single space.