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The implantation and volume were previously defined, through a previously approved project.
The Project is based on the desire to create a building with its own personality, capable of asserting itself and integrating into the urban context that surrounds it. It was entirely redesigned to adapt it to the new program. 

The site where the building is inserted has a very significant height difference, in such a way that in the north, facing Rua Presidente Arriaga, the elevation has four floors, while in the south, facing the Tagus River, it has seven floors. Both realities are completely different, to which the project responds in a completely different way. 

The elevation of Rua Presidente Arriaga is more closed, with window openings similar to those of the buildings that surround it. It is covered with ceramic pieces, as in so many buildings in the city of Lisbon. Here, to create the ceramic tile, artist Mariana Vasco Costa was invited, who developed a set of “tiles”, created as three-dimensional, large-format, diamond-shaped ceramic pieces, manufactured semi- industrially by the Viúva Lamego Company. This work took place simultaneously with the development of the project. The design, its shape and geometry, as well as its layout and tone, took into account the particular orientation of the facade (to the north) and the unique location of the building at the turning point of the street. This circumstance, and the plastic composition of this facade / sculpture, allows to obtain some very special sparkles and reflections throughout the day and a more dramatic image at sunrise and sunset. The effect produced by the three-dimensionality of the ceramic coating makes the way we visualize this facade to be completely different, if we approach it from the west, or if we do it from the east. 

The south elevation, facing Tagus River, is more open, lighter. It consists of a set of deep, light galleries, built in white painted steel, which work as true extensions of the living spaces of the dwellings.