For this exercise we were presented with a urban restructuring operation divided into three phases: Place - Implementation and urban form; Urban form - housing project and public and private spaces; Collective residential building - form, function and construction.

The strategy is based on creating a direct connection from the House of Music to the metro station, at the same time, creating an alternative trajectory to the Rotunda da Boavista. The buildings do not wish to assert itself by its form, or be an exception, given the proximity to the House of Music. Its implementation and form appears as a continuation of the typology of surrounding buildings, which use the ground-floor commercial space and the upper floors being reserved for housing and / or offices, while it helps to confine the Rotunda  - whose definition is fragile and fragmented in terms of occupation and fences - and reveal even more space and the building of the House of Music. The building which is more of an exception is the office building, implanted on the side of the Avenue de France, the widest street.

The choice of materials fell into the concrete, paved with stone and brise-soleil, trying to create a bridge between the various languages ​​of the surrounding buildings. In response to the program and form of exception that is the House of Music, the choice was more sober forms conecting with the housing suroundings, but with a transition to a larger scale made through the double height of the living rooms of the modules. The chosen area for the definition of architectural detail was a 5-storey building (ground floor + 4 housing floors), facing the House of Music, whose base module housing typology articulates T3 apartments. The common areas are facing the street and rooms face the interior of the block, which is for private use.