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O House / Belém Lima Architects

00:00 - 29 September, 2011

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O House / Belém Lima Architects

O House / Belém Lima Architects, © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG — © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Architects

Belém Lima Architects
Location

Vila Real, Portugal
Engineering

Norvia | coord MJ Borges
Constructor

RPM
Area

550.0 m2
Photographs

Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Text description provided by the architects. The O house is a house in the countryside, yet it is more than a country house. It is a marker house which exceeds functionality.

© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

It turns it's focus inward while the inside while the Marão mountains pay attention.

Site Plan

Here, the library is a bridge, the staircase a living room, the atrium a boomerang, in movement without progress.

© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

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Cite: "O House / Belém Lima Architects" 29 Sep 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/172151/o-house-belem-lima-architects/> ISSN 0719-8884

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