Reasonable Housing

In a quiet village of detached houses, a factory that looked like a house became an apartment block that looks like a factory. Each of its three levels holds two apartments, and the very low budget meant modest construction, yet open plans give generous areas and several orientations.

The Portuguese design team started from the existing columns, whose off-centre axis came from the machines once housed there, and let geometry order the rest: six square rooms, one split into two triangles, a curve and a small kink. A row of evenly spaced blue doors lines up with the columns and a heavy beam.