House in Tróia / Jorge Mealha

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Miranda do Corvo, Portugal

Text description provided by the architects. For the surrounding ground, a set of virtually blank solids perform a dialectically tensioned play, searching, through scale and accentuation on the surfaces edges outlines, the emphasis on the light/shadow interplay, proposing an ever changing reading throughout the day.

House in Tróia / Jorge Mealha - Facade
Courtesy of Jorge Mealha

The outline and voiding of the mass proposes an articulation of solids and wall surrounded patios, succeeding each other in the organization of a rhythmic sequence of a fluid program. The openings either of limited dimensions or placed in the interstitial spaces, in between the various solids, allow, in a quite controlled way, the fruition of chosen frames.

House in Tróia / Jorge Mealha - Image 10 of 30
Courtesy of Jorge Mealha

The scale, the openings and the skylights, become instruments for light capture and redirection, either diffused or of a direct nature, drawing and sprinkling with light the interior planes throughout the daylight cycle.

House in Tróia / Jorge Mealha - Wood, Stairs, Facade, Windows
Courtesy of Jorge Mealha

Within the inner perimeter, a sequence of horizontal and vertical interplays between the various solids, voids and outlines, create the spatial identity structure of the house.

House in Tróia / Jorge Mealha - Facade
Courtesy of Jorge Mealha

With plastered blank shutters, in the same finishing as the coating of the outside walls, when shut, lead to virtually blank solids, in the pursuit of a clear reading of the format.

House in Tróia / Jorge Mealha - Facade
Courtesy of Jorge Mealha

Some ambiguities in the reading and definition of the containing and the contained elements inter-relations play with the observer's capacity and interest in the decoding of space and shape design.

House in Tróia / Jorge Mealha - Windows, Handrail
Courtesy of Jorge Mealha

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Cite: "House in Tróia / Jorge Mealha" 25 Nov 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/91075/house-in-troia-jorge-mealha> ISSN 0719-8884

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