"Rua Direita", despite being formally tortuous streets, were functionally the shopping center, ‘the heart’, and the main circulation axis, connecting the landmarks, ‘the vital organs’

The covered veranda that preserves the architecture of the older houses in Chaves is linked to the very humid local climate with many foggy and rainy days, in which the covered veranda (and some glazed windows as solariums) serves as a transition space between exterior and interior of the house, which for this reason had several practical applications such as drying clothes. If the house is a world the balcony is a world within the world.