Resume: The research project focuses on the study of transition spaces in collective housing buildings, seeking to reflect on their relevance as spatial devices of articulation between home and city. It seeks to interpret how these spaces generate morphological conditions that encourage social activities of sharing and collective experience, transforming this transitional system into a place. The space between the house and the city transfigures the limits of the house and transforms the way we inhabit the city. Taking the Portuguese mainland as a context, the embryo research project will seek to take advantage of the material produced and systematized by the research project “Building Typology”, developed by the research group formaurbis LAB or from other Portuguese institutions, whose areas of action or lines of research are directly linked to Collective Housing, p.e. IHRU. The study seeks to open the debate in contemporary architectural production on the importance of these systems as transition devices between the most domestic and collective space and may even constitute a moment of dilation of public space. At a time when the production of collective housing is at the center of the debate in Portugal, it is important to reflect on how we can produce living spaces that are more integrated and continuous with the rest of the city's structure and avoid past mistakes where certain architectural and urban options contributed to segregation processes social and urban.
