With a built area of 520 square meters, this block of tourist housing takes up a plot on Rúa Pedro Álvares Cabral, in Porto, where a leafy tree used to stand. The project seeks to bring back memories of that tree, which was removed for construction work to go ahead.

Next to long narrow buildings, the solution was to erect two separate facades facing the street, leaving a patio in between as an anteroom to the ground floor, and as home to a new tree. The main facade connects with the more open next one by means of a series of balconies. Engaging with its context, the building is executed with textured exposed concrete and in two colors: gray and green. The exterior surfaces incorporate recycled glass fragments as aggregates.

The ground floor contains an art gallery, and above it are four floors of flats, the topmost of which takes advantage of the roof terrace. At the rear of the site are a pond and a two-story small house that provides accommodations for artists, in conjunction with the gallery.