该项目位于西非佛得角的Sao Vicente岛上的明德卢市，该城市发展迅速，25岁以下的人口占城市人口的50%，且游客数量不断增加。

The city of Mindelo on the island of Sao Vicente, Capo Verde, west Africa, is expanding rapidly, with 50% of the population under the age of 25, and with a constantly growing touristic flow.

▼建筑外观，exterior view © Sergio Pirrone

▼建筑鸟瞰，aerial view © Sergio Pirrone

项目占地60平方米，位于城市的中心商业街。在过去的15年间，街道上的建筑从色彩鲜艳的单层住宅逐渐转变为小型的四层公寓楼，其中一些悬空在道路之上。针对这一现状，设计团队希望在旧建筑、新建筑和地块两侧的现有建筑之间建立和谐的过渡关系。设计的首要任务是借助4层高的垂直立面来为建筑赋予趣味性，同时使其发挥新的功能。

The 60 sq m plot is located in the city’s center commercial street. A street that in the last 15 years has transformed its architecture, from residential, with traditional multi-colored one-storey houses, to small 4-storey apartment buildings, with the possibility of one meter overhang on the public road. How could we create an harmonious transition between the old existing, the new and the two existing buildings on the sides of the plot. Above all, as we could have conveyed through a 4-storey vertical facade, the same joy that was in traditional architecture, combining it with a new program.

▼主立面，main facade © Sergio Pirrone

▼街道立面，street facade © Sergio Pirrone