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Location: Matosinhos, Portugal
From the Architect: “Inside an outlined footprint, an surprising determine arises. The standard sloped roof of the suburban home is inverted—one facet curved, the opposite straight—producing a peculiar silhouette that disrupts the monotonous suburbia. The amount resembles an exploded field sitting on a translucent plinth. Totally different vertical and slanted surfaces are set aside with completely different colours, every meticulously chosen. Spherical and sq. home windows punctuate the white canvas, composing three distinct elevations; some appear to imitate faces, some evoke imaginary animals. The facade’s playful palette extends to the blue and inexperienced shutters, concealing the openings and rendering the home akin to a paper collage, the place coloured figures are scattered throughout the white canvas. Hues of inexperienced, blue, gentle inexperienced, black, white, and inexperienced once more. On the within, the construction divorces itself from the wall: a sequence of 5 slender, gentle inexperienced concrete columns reveals itself in numerous rooms, obstructing day by day routines. One in every of these columns is on the terrace supporting nothing. The residing area on the bottom ground is open to the backyard and related to the workplace above. The complexity of the sporadic inside outcomes from double-height areas, occasional kinks in partitions, concrete columns, and the gently sloped ceiling. On the highest ground, the first bed room finds its place inside an extruded quarter-circle area. The home is rigorously assembled out of surfaces—straight, folded, minimize, curved, and tilted—whether or not crafted from concrete, marble, or glass brick. They divide, overlap, intersect, and canopy. These surfaces are anchored by columns that boldly punch via. The inside area meanders between the choreographed parts. The determine of the home is concurrently full and damaged.”
