LOUIS DAMS | SOCIAL HOUSING | BARREIRA | PORTUGAL

This PARIDAIDA (paradise) is a cascading garden full of orange trees, with water streaming downstairs from pond to pond. Because all apartments are focused on this, it is a generator for the balance between social interaction and privacy. This balance between privacy, being on your own, and social interaction, being part of a group, is important in being and feeling happy and healthy. Especially if being on your own and at the same time feeling part of a group is possible.

From your apartment you can have privacy but also watch the activity and therefore feeling part of the group. If you want contact you don’t have to wait for a visit, you can stroll through the garden, the square or go to the restaurant, the orangery, the library. The complex has lots of vistas inside and to the surroundings, so you not only feel part of a GROUP but also part of the WORLD.

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