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Architects: António da Costa Lima, L Arquitectos
- Area: 240 m²
- Year: 2012
Text description provided by the architects. The house is located in an urban hillside of villas facing a privileged view of the West Jamor Valley.
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The slope of a long and narrow plot inspired the genesis of the concept of property; a volumetric assimilation of the house as part of outer space. The house is the garden itself on its outer surface.
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The four elevations and roof operate as garden areas as well as their concrete support walls. Given the slope, the house presents two ends in contrast: the West side, with an almost nonexistent façade with a gradual entry into the house and the East side is a fully opened object facing the lovely valley.
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. In fact, the house is hardly perceived from the road, revealing itself as an exception to the street morphology: a plot without a house.
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