The crisis that hit Portugal ten years ago has produced an incredible density of abandoned spaces. The two main cities, Porto and Lisbon, offered a landscape of ruins and closed buildings that charmed an international community looking for a southern romanticism. This landscape was featured by numerous opaque facades, hiding the interiors as if the life of those buildings had disappeared or was in a frozen state, waiting for better times to open the windows again and let the sunshine in. Streets with no windows, faces without eyes. As a trace of the time in which the Dodged house was designed and built, it has preferred to keep its eyes closed and its opaque façade and has bet on a less marketable feature, space, void and interior volume. Within a rather small plot the Dodged house has privileged a strong section and a contemplative void, proposing a diversity of interior-exterior spaces that extend into a courtyard. Evidently, the project responds as well to a complexity of functional requirements that has turned the house into a machine à habiter, playing again, quite deliberately and strongly with the history of modernism and its inhabitable typologies.