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    Banker's Loft

    2020

    At the top of a housing block in the city of Pombal, an old attic space is transformed into a habitable environment. What was once a scattered collection of storage rooms is now reimagined as a single architectural gesture: a continuous, elongated space, precisely shaped from what was already there.

    With minimal means, the intervention unites the available fragments. A subtle curve runs through the space, stitching together the main living area with the private quarters — bedrooms and bathrooms. Nothing is superfluous, nothing is imposed. Everything follows a logic of restraint and reinvention.

    The large veranda — a kind of panoramic terrace — opens out over the city, like an observatory. From up there, the resident, once a banker, now surveys his “kingdom” with a different perspective: more intimate, more silent.

    This renovation does not merely seek shelter. It seeks meaning. More than a simple reuse of a rooftop, it is an exercise in synthesis: doing more with less, but doing it with intent. Transforming what was above into something truly worth inhabiting.