我们不担心历史中心的问题。在那里，底层的使用问题是完全不同的。无论我们是否喜欢全球品牌和纪念品商店已经超越了大多数欧洲城市的旅游街道，它都是有效的。一旦人们离开老的Baixa，就不可能对大量连续的空橱窗、关闭的企业、墙和木板以及出售的标志无动于衷。很快，人们就会得出结论，这不是一个当地的问题，也不是由于位置不佳、街道重要性和建筑类型造成的。问题似乎不是这些因素中的任何一个，而是我们自己。我们，作为公民和消费者，是问题所在，也是各地的底层仍然空着、没有得到充分利用和等待的原因。

We’re not worried about the historic centre. There, the issue of ground-floor use is something else altogether. It works, whether we like that global brands and souvenir shops have overtaken the touristic streets of most European cities, or not. As soon as one moves away from the old Baixa, it’s impossible to remain indifferent to the vast succession of empty shop windows of closed businesses, walled and boarded up and for sale signs. Soon, one reaches the conclusion that this is not a local problem or due to poor location, street importance, and building typology. The problem doesn’t seem to be any of those factors, but rather ourselves. We, as citizens and consumers, are the problem and the reason why ground floors everywhere remain empty, underused, and waiting.

社会似乎重视一种生活方式，在这种生活方式中，汽车占据了核心地位。周边购物中心下丰富的停车位和将一周的购物集中在一天的习惯，已经成为我们日常工作的一部分，这是一个看似完美的解决方案，能够协调工作时间和家庭生活组织。可惜的是，如果发现邻里之间的生活是匮乏的：下面的面包店，角落里的屠夫，零公里的水果小贩，无处可寻的汽车修理店……不幸的是，想象这种生活很快就会卷土重来，似乎并不可信。那么，如何处理所有这些封闭的底层空间，似乎没有人愿意把他们的毕生积蓄放在那里？

It seems society values a lifestyle where the car takes a central role. The convenience of abundant parking under a periphery shopping mall and the habit of concentrating the week’s shopping in one single day has become part of our routines, in a seemingly perfect solution that manages to reconcile working hours and domestic life organization. Too bad if neighbourhood life is found wanting: the bakery below, the butcher in the corner, the zero Km fruit vendors, the car repair shops that are nowhere to be found… it doesn’t seem, unfortunately, credible to imagine that this sort of life will make its comeback any time soon. What to do, then, with all these closed ground floor spaces, where no one seems to be willing to bet their life savings?

oitoo受委托为一个闲置的底层空间开发一个住宅项目，这个底层空间以前是一个仓库，就像许多其他的仓库一样，有一个临街面和一个后院，有明确的内部空间，有承重结构，有立面，与公寓的公用设施和城市的基础设施相连，尽管有点破旧。

oitoo was commissioned to develop a residential project for an unused ground floor, a former warehouse, like so many others, with a street front and a backyard, clearly defined internal spaces, with load-bearing structure, façades, connected to the condominium’s utilities and the city’s infrastructure, albeit a bit rundown.

我们认为，这些空间呈现出独特的特征，可以使它们成为慷慨的家庭空间，离城市的市中心只有两步之遥：相对较大的面积，开放的空间布局，高高的天花板，以及一个要求成为其他东西的后院。这可能很不明显，但位于市中心的 “带花园的房子 “可能不再是少数人的奢侈品，而是可以为许多人恢复的。

We believe that these spaces present unique features that would allow them to become generous, domestic spaces two steps away from the city’s downtown: relatively large areas, open spatial layouts, high ceilings, and a backyard asking to become something else. It may be far from obvious, but the “house with a garden” in the city’s centre could cease to be a luxury reserved to the few and could be recovered for the many.

这个项目要求我们反思室内设计的具体主题：在公共和私人领域之间进行调解，设计和组织内部的家庭空间；考虑在特别深的地块上的自然和人工照明需求；考虑饰面和材料；考虑高天花板带来的定义内部 “地形 “的机会；重新思考后院的使用，从物流区到内部领域的有效扩展 – 一个向天空开放的 “外部房间”。

This project asked us to reflect upon specific themes of interior design: mediating between the public and private realm, designing and organising the internal domestic space; considering natural and artificial lighting needs in exceptionally deep plots; considering finishes and materiality; considering the opportunities that high ceilings present to define an internal “topography”; rethinking the use of the backyards, from logistic areas to effective expansions of the inside realm – an “outside room”, open towards the sky.

这座有四间卧室的被动房依靠交叉通风和地板辐射供暖，以确保以最小的能源消耗获得最大的舒适度。当地工艺是生产定制窗框、木工和金属工程的关键。

The four-bedroom passive house relies on cross ventilation and radiating floor heating to ensure maximum comfort with minimum energy expenditure. Local craftsmanship was key to producing bespoke window frames, carpentry, and metal works.

Architects: oitoo
Area: 190 m²
Year: 2021
Photographs: Adriano Mura
Manufacturers: Aleluia Cerâmicas, Amorim, Ofa, Projecto Mosaico, ARCALO, Grandinetti, Saint Gobain Glass, Sodo collect
Client:Privado
Engineering:Ulisses Gonçalves
Design Team:oitoo
City:Porto
Country:Portugal