São Victor House / COMBO Architects Studio

Built in 1880-1881, the building was very uncharacterized inside. It had been subjected to interventions that compromised the state of conservation of its elements and disqualified its interior space. Although it was originally conceived as a single-family dwelling, it was excessively compartmentalized by walls erected to transform this building into collective housing - a reflection of the excessive desire for the profitability of housing space in recent decades in urban centers, often (and in this case) without the care or respect for the space and materiality that this type of building contains.