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House 1 in Penafiel / Claudio Vilarinho
Architects: Claudio Vilarinho
Location: Penafiel, Portugal
Contractor: Objecto, Engenharia e Construção Lda. + Others
Engineering: Apótema – Gabinete de Projectos Eléctricos, Rita & Gás, Lda. + Futureng, Lda. + Objecto, Engenharia e Construção Lda.
Project Year: 2005-in construction
Photographs: Claudio Vilarinho
The idea: a white volume (28×10m) that rests on a continuous grass carpet.
The second idea: the house has 6 façades.
When in a highest stage we are descending the existing path, we see a volume that comes down and accompanies us; suddenly this volume leans up and projects itself to the valley.
The parking is located below the house (standing 10m in the air), the floor is made out of cement slabs that enables the circulation of a car while the grass grows.
The access to the main entrance of the house it’s done through a “negative in the centre of the body” (a patio that contains a small tree).
Besides this opening in the roof, it has other four; we explore ways of air circulation, shades, contemplation; we want to enable different atmospheres.
The program is the conventional one for a house with four bedrooms.
In the elaboration of the project we had the need to orient the openings for the sights towards the horizon, on the other hand those same openings are predominantly oriented to West and South, leaving the East façade completely closed.
The intention of the matter:
1- a skin, a body;
2- the material, white, with a subtle texture:
a. on the walls of the façade,
b. on the exterior ceilings,
c. on the balconies floors,
d. on the patios floors,
e. and on the roof.
We wanted the sealing of the house’s terrain to be permeable (wooden slats 6×6cm).
The construction system is made out of Light Steel Frame.
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It looks really interesting. Simple shape, simple solution and succesful hoovering effect.
We miss images of the west facade! …hope it doesn´t ruin the purity of the ship
Cool neighborhood, and a nice project. It’s interesting to me that it’s so directional, that the thrust of the house is so obviously all to one place. It’s almost like a sort of stage or movie theatre; the rest of the house exists in relation to the big pane of windows.
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interior?
Plans??!!Interior??
very,very articulated and great in it’s simpicity-an elegant solution to all the surrounding
please landscape!
I really like the design and technology of this project but I must admit it kinda stands alone in the overall environment. I know that it shouldn’t look like anything else, it is what it’s suppose to be, but my understanding of the living environment is that there’s got to be some flow, visual and/or aesthetic flow. There’s something I miss here. I would also like to see some interior pictures.
with no interior images, this house simply becomes an nice object. I’d like to see the southern framed view looking out over the landscape.
This house isn’t finished yet, that’s why there is no interior images.
please some more images… looks quite interesting and we can all learn from it. Thanks
Wow, this firm has some great work! As the project progresses, it would also be nice to see a roof detail also. I’ve always been curious to know how these white boxes detail their roofs/drainage.
Maria,there are continuity in this project!!It’s white-as the others,it isnt overwhelming the view to others, it answers the questions in topographical way.Do you miss some cantelevered towers?
From outside it looks interesting, however very monumental for the context. The monumentality is given due to the hermetically closed facade . When you look at the floor plans you ask yourself, why the room allocated along this wall cannot get natural light. I understand the notion to avoid views to the neighbourhood but there would have been many solutions to make openings that allow natural lighting and privacy. These openings would also have reduced the purely sculptural look of the house, thus making it more an architectural object than an art piece. I’ m sure the main view is great though.
“Architecture is an art”-O.Niermeyer
nice, then let’ see what adolf loos said:
“Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.”
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ok,then lets do some more glass boxes-that fullfill the funcional needs.Or lets stick to the 50’s fubctionalism?Sorry guys,but these thoughts is like the one’s of Nikita Chruschev.By the way-what’s wrong with sculptural looking houses?(If it’s not like the ones like the O’gehry’s?These are really..gmm..an art-arent suitable to live in).Whats wrong with austerity?To have focus?Colleque,do you have an eye on your ear?
of course a building can have sculptural aspects, but in this case everything that constitutes archtecture is put aside just for the sake of the grand gesture. You have to agree with me that in this case the formal ambition was priority. ok, we dont see the other facade, but from this side the pure formal gesture was the main ambition.
you could call that formalism!!
interesting discussion by the way
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thanks :)
I agree,its a pitty that there arent the photo from other side.
The puristic facade, I think comes from 2 points-a)to have “pure”,sculpture-like fascade;b)to feel at home alone with this fantastic landscape(note,that the road is very close to the house-you know-the cars,people passing by…).To me its the manifesto of the dinamic solitude-the carport shows this very well-you enter into the “cave”,like some monk,who’s going away from the world-and,when you are in it-gone-you see the light-its the sort of the tunnel,of the journey-when you enter in one side and emerge in the other-its some sort that you have made a journey between the worlds.Some sort ot the time-space machine :)
And-besides-The house deals pretty well with its function-I think that one must have a pretty sharp mind to make a beautifull,sculpture like body,which is suitable to live in comfort(eastetical and phisical).
Really guys ?!
http://www.archdaily.com/11726/genesis-house-palais-de-justice-planda/
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