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House in Bom Jesus

House in Bom Jesus

To meet the clients’ requirements we designed a black and white house with large terraces overlooking the city. The terraces’ drawings led us to involve the house in a heroically suspended ring. Between this ring and the house a garden embraces the oak-trees. On the house’s south and west sides the terraces’ horizontal subbase planes..
House in Costa Nova

House in Costa Nova

Sometimes one’s ability to be radical depends on the site, the state of mind while drawing and the will to accept a kind or a straightforward relation with the surroundings. As if nothing mattered but the dialogue with the vastness of the ocean and its phenomenons, a high tectonic building was drawn, facing west. The..
House 9

House 9

The atelier took on this plat between 1996 and 2000. All houses are based in the same “L” shape volume and plan typology. The dwellings built so far allowed us to ascertain that it is possible to create diverse environments whilst meeting the clients’ requirements and ensuring the collective wellbeing of landscape usufruct, privacy and..
House in Oporto

House in Oporto

The idea of a house structured by a continuous uncoated white concrete wall came to mind while walking along a Richard Serra steel spiral. It starts on the fireplace and extends to the plot limits. In analogy we aimed at two situations: on the inside “an emotion’s machine” and on the outside the object’s unity..