架构师提供的文本描述。该项目的目的是改造波尔图历史中心地区的一座老房子。问题是要为21世纪的生活方式创造一个单一家庭的房子。这所房子位于马萨雷洛斯，在一条风景如画的小街道上。十九世纪，马萨雷洛斯是英国人选择建造房屋和农民的地区之一。

Text description provided by the architects. The objective of the project was the conversion of an old house in the area of Porto historical center. The question was to create a single-family house to the 21st century way of living. The house is located in Massarelos, in a tiny picturesque street. During the nineteenth century, Massarelos was one of the areas chosen by the British to build their houses and farmers.

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在田园环境中，在2001年(欧洲文化之都)、矩阵和农村资产阶级，被称为“浪漫主义道路”，创造了几条小径，在十九世纪，这是一个非常活跃的工业场所。

In the bucolic setting, which led to the creation of several footpaths in 2001 (European Capital of Culture), matrix and rural bourgeois, called "Romantic Roads", this was a very active industrially place during the nineteenth century.

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鉴于该地区部分楼宇的外观及现有工业性质，因此我们决定保留现有的外墙及余下的地面外墙，并在内部加设新的混凝土体积。

Given the overriding need to maintain the facade and the existing industrial character of some buildings in the area, we decided to retain the existing facade and the remaining outer walls of the ground and put the new concrete volume in the interior.

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为了保护遗址的传统环境，当外部空间扩展到内部时，房子本身就变成了一种围护，房子的体积被南北两面的建筑所包围，远离正面，从东到西。

To preserve the traditional surroundings of the site, the house itself becomes a kind of enclosure were the exteriors spaces expand into the interior. The volume of the house is bordered by buildings within the North and South and away from facades, which remained to east and west.

 perspective

从材料的角度来看，立面是一种被动的元素，垂直的玻璃板给内部以深度，这样你就可以看到和感觉到相邻的空间。在里面，房子是通过一个中央楼梯组织起来的，中间的楼梯分布着内部的空间。

From a material point of view the facade is a passive element, the vertical glass panels give depth to the interior, so you can see and feel the neighboring spaces. Inside, the house is organized on three floors through a central staircase that distributes the inside spaces.

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