![QST House / NOARQ - Exterior Photography, Facade, Garden](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5e7a/194b/b357/65c3/7900/000d/newsletter/FEATURED.jpg?1585060162)
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Architects: NOARQ
- Area: 3541 ft²
- Year: 2019
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Photographs:João Morgado
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Manufacturers: AutoDesk, BRUMA, NOARQ + B.loft, Smeg, TUDEMMAD, Trimble Navigation
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Lead Architect: José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira
![QST House / NOARQ - Exterior Photography](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5e7a/181d/b357/65c3/7900/0005/medium_jpg/00-QST-exterior__aerial_view.jpg?1585059853)
Text description provided by the architects. The house rises from broad blocks of blue granite into the wilderness, like a fortification, indistinct from the supporting walls at the edge of the street. It backs up the old farmland, now transformed into a garden.
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The silhouette embedded in the roadside is opened up by timid windows on the upper floor. By the connection with the street, a sequence of cattle crevices illuminates the current kitchen. The building stretches itself till the oxblood-coloured gate, pointing to the threshing floor moulded into the granite of the street wall.
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Above the entrance, tended towards the east, a wooded room painted in the colour of the gate, of the eaves and of the window frames lay suspended.
![QST House / NOARQ - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Countertop, Windows, Chair, Sink](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5e7a/18b4/b357/6566/5000/0007/medium_jpg/07-QST-kitchen_counter.jpg?1585060005)
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The building was cleaned up of picturesque motifs, sheds, shutters and loose exoticism. On the inside, we redesigned each and every constructive piece; the stripped reality was reinvented.
![QST House / NOARQ - Exterior Photography, Facade, Garden](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5e7a/193f/b357/6566/5000/000b/newsletter/16-QST-exterior__night_view.jpg?1585060148)