House in Macinhata / Nuno Brandao Costa

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Architect: Nuno Brandao Costa
Location: Lugar da Quinta do Monte, Macinhata da Seixa, Oliveira de Azeméis,
Collaboration: André Eduardo Tavares, Joana Restivo, Inês Pimentel
Client: Dr. Jorge de Jesus Ribeiro
Foundations and Structures: Ana Isabel Vale (AB Projectos)
Hydraulic equipment and installations: Ana Isabel Vale (AB Projectos)
Electricity & Safety: Maria da Luz Santiago (RS associados)
Hvac: Raul Bessa (GET)
Project Area: 313 sqm
Project Year: 2005-2008
Photographs: Courtesy of Nuno Brandao Costa

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The client wanted a house that would fulfil an old dream: to be in the living-room and watch the sea.

The land was high but not enough to get a glimpse of the water down there in the West.

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Thus, the house kept rising volume after volume until it reached the living-room, opened and looking at the sea.

Everything was inverted:

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A granite platform simulates a Northern house, placed on a stone threshing floor, with only two storeys. The third storey is hidden under the slope to open itself over Oliveira city, the bedrooms and below them the pool.

The windows, many and large, are opened to every direction so that the house faces everywhere.

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Upstairs the framework cuts out the westward landscape inside the living-room almost as a canvas painted only for this house, a dream once again drawn: “Ça c`est pour moi, le plus beau et le plus triste paysage du monde. C´est le même paysage de la page précédente, mais je lái dessiné une fois encore pour bien vous le montrer. C´est ici que le petit prince a apparu sur terre, puis disparu.” final excerpt of Le Petit Prince, Antoine Saint-Exupéry

* Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.
 
 
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jonjon says:

Great project… great photos… very well done x

 
# September 28, 2010 at 09:04
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Lucas says:

Boxes, boxes and more boxes…
Is that all you can do Mr. Nuno Brandao Costa?

 
# September 28, 2010 at 09:27
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Awesome architectural “boxes”! :-D

 
# September 28, 2010 at 09:36
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rolo says:

yes indeed

beautiful boxes!!

 
# September 28, 2010 at 12:19
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luda says:

great inside design but i dont like it.

 
# September 28, 2010 at 12:47
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architect says:

i am getting tired of boxes.
especially those coming from my country Portugal.

 
# September 28, 2010 at 14:15
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luca says:

house=box

 
# September 28, 2010 at 14:55
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bardo says:

exquisite. nothing more be need said.

 
# September 28, 2010 at 22:49
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tsk tsk says:

I like this one, it’s better than the little house NBC has completed in AV. Boavista, Porto.

 
# September 29, 2010 at 03:19
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Nice small house, real pearl… Almost all houses around us have rectangular shape (they are boxes), almost all vehicles have four vheels and aircrafts have two wings… this is life as it is… Thanks for executive drawings for this project. It is more important than pictures…

 
# September 30, 2010 at 10:04
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M. says:

lindo

 
# October 2, 2010 at 15:24
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    xman says:

    Linda és tu “M”

     
    # January 30, 2011 at 12:11
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gina says:

the top floor or deck looks dangerous if you have kids or if you are drunk?

 
# October 10, 2010 at 23:36
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Malik says:

“portrait” house
this design show ways to keep portraits of it’s site
outside to inside at it own ways
this design full of outside and it work greatly, facade showing a nature color but still has a strong “word” to says if this is a building not a rock
in some ways this remind me of Ando Tadao work

 
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