架构师提供的文本描述。贝尔塔·维亚纳的房子位于Esposende中心的一个卓越的地方，为了把它重新改造成一座办公楼，进行了一次干预。

Text description provided by the architects. Located in a place of excellence in the heart of Esposende, Berta Viana’s House underwent an intervention in order to reconvert it into an office building.

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C.Bruno Aguia

然而，它的两旁是另外两个更大的，规模完全不同，在这个假设下，房子重新设计了一个新的楼层，找到了一个更平衡的关系，以统一和澄清城市结构。

However, it was flanked by two other larger, with a completely different scale and under this assumption, the house was redesigned with a new floor, finding a more balanced relationship with its surroundings in order to unify and clarify the urban fabric.

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C.Bruno Aguia

从外部看，该项目试图保持目前的形象，指的是20世纪50年代。主高程的总体构成导致了不同时期这两个要素的结合，形成了过去与现在之间的对话。

From the outside the project tried to keep the the current image referring to the 1950’s. The overall composition of the main elevation result in the joining together of these two elements of different periods, establishing a dialogue between past and present.

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C.Bruno Aguia