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Architects: Humberto Conde Arquitectos
- Area: 500 m²
- Year: 2017
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Photographer:Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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Text description provided by the architects. According to the design premise of a single family dwelling – Carnaxide 8 House – this project seeks to establish a simple image with a clear relation with the landscape.
Starting from the site gross building area and its contextual legal limits (implantation area and number of floors pre-defined by the development) – a capable contemporary design was created in order to respect the defined design conditions which responds to the current requirements.
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The concept started from the volumetric distinction between private and social spaces.
The private space is formed by a "suspended white box" with light and pure lines. The social space, "attached to the ground" is brown painted, a textured darker material as a base to support the upper suspended volume (the private area).
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In this way, at entrance level (social area) – a ground relation is developed, attached to the courtyard, connecting interior/exterior experiences.
By opposition, at first floor level (private zone), the building volumetry is defined by a visual lightness – it is proposed, therefore, a white "box" supported and suspended over a textured volume. This overlap results, in a moment, in a play of shadows on the outer spaces of the courtyard.
This building transmits a sense of a "white stone" block suspended over a textured brown base attached to the ground.
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