![House in Fontainhas / Fala - Exterior Photography, Facade, Door, Stairs, Concrete](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5f0c/f1b6/b357/65c9/0e00/06d7/medium_jpg/FEATURE.jpg?1594683816)
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Architects: Fala
- Area: 255 m²
- Year: 2019
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Photographs:Ricardo Loureiro
![House in Fontainhas / Fala - Exterior Photography, Garden](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5f0c/ee38/b357/65d3/3100/045e/medium_jpg/fala_057_web_01.jpg?1594682923)
Text description provided by the architects. The project is structured within overlapping antagonistic spatial structures. The ground floor is conceived as one uninterrupted space defined by a free curved wall. It is a volatile room with only one corner and two continuous white surfaces opening up to the vivid garden. Its inner elevations are carefully calculated.
![House in Fontainhas / Fala - Interior Photography, Stairs, Handrail](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5f0c/eed5/b357/65d3/3100/0461/medium_jpg/fala_057_web_03.jpg?1594683080)
![House in Fontainhas / Fala - Image 9 of 9](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5f0c/eda7/b357/65d3/3100/045c/newsletter/fala_057_web_09.jpg?1594682778)
![House in Fontainhas / Fala - Interior Photography, Stairs, Windows, Door](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5f0c/ef82/b357/65d3/3100/0463/medium_jpg/fala_057_web_04.jpg?1594683252)
Conversely, the first floor is a composition of intricate rooms and rhythmic collisions of different geometries, a sequence of irregular spaces. The complexity is introduced to accommodate all the necessary programs, adapting to the narrow perimeter of the site. A set of equally distanced wooden beams supporting the roof causes inconvenient intersections.
![House in Fontainhas / Fala - Interior Photography, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5f0c/f059/b357/65c9/0e00/06d1/medium_jpg/fala_057_web_06.jpg?1594683466)
In contrast with the opposing spatial orders, materiality holds the house together. Fluent white walls are stuck between striped wooden floors and light blue ceilings, disturbed once in a while by flat blue doors, touches of marble or a pink kitchen.
![House in Fontainhas / Fala - Interior Photography, Stairs, Handrail](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5f0c/f08d/b357/65c9/0e00/06d3/medium_jpg/fala_057_web_07.jpg?1594683519)
The back façade didactically reflects the three orders. The ground floor is completely open to the garden while on the first floor a single window frames a certain perspective of the dense context. The striped concrete cornice is introduced on both elevations and a blue circle, aligned with an unnecessary pink column, ends the peculiar composition. A ground floor dissolving into the garden, a precisely divided piano nobile, a headstrong roof.
![House in Fontainhas / Fala - Interior Photography, Bathroom, Sink](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5f0c/f173/b357/65d3/3100/0468/medium_jpg/fala_057_web_08.jpg?1594683749)