RUA JOSE JOAQUIM DE MOURA

PATIO TOWN HOUSES

Rua José Joaquim de Moura 2; 12/28

Arq. Manuel Gomes da Costa (MGdC) 1961

MGdC created the concept of Patio Town Houses. (CORREIA Houses)

4 Economic town houses have been built at #12 to 28 made of 2 apartments each, with independant entrance from the street level and private or semi-private patios. A never seen before balance of comfort design and price offered to modest working classes.

That model of independant town house with patio became one of MGC housing trademark that he started

spreading out accross Faro and the Algarve.

GOOD TO KNOW : This project established new standards for MGdC future constructions : Large rendered surfaces stamped with reliefs or openings, opaque parapets, harmonious distribution of surfaces and openings combined with colours and scren walls in order to break the density of the buidling.

In drawing : Semi Private Patio / Private patio / Opaque parapets scren walls / Independant access / Harmonious repetition of aligned openings