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Alcoutins House
Lisbon, Portugal
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Other Projects by Guedes Cruz Architects
Alcoutins House
Lisbon, Portugal
Project Featured on Feb 19, 2014
Alcoutins House
The site is the plane where our projects become architecture.
It is on this that we build and what we see are the apparent forms, those which appear above this plane.
In the Alcoutins House the real form is that which has as a support a plane which is 3.5 metres below ground level. It is like a lake, where the volumes float or rest on the base, where we see only the part that appears above the waterline.
The Alcoutins House follows the production method of the space that supports our projects by making a study model in balsa wood and K-Line board. In this process it is worth mentioning the non- programmed, intuitive part; that which arises from sporadic acts free from any preconception other than the result of the analysis of the objective conditioning features of the site and of any regulatory system of the architectonic design.
This house is a contemporary of the Belas house, with just a few weeks between them, and its shape is also a result of the force of chance interfering in the process of composition based on logical analysis. A conversation around the table where bits of the model were lying, leftovers of the model of that house, which in their haphazard layout awaited someone to save them from the probable fate of the waste bin. With our eyes on the site map, our memory recalling the functional program of the house and our hands "playing "with the bits of card, plans were defined, volumes formed and thus the Alcoutins House was born. Rationalism and intuition in immeasurable steps and proportions.
Location: Lisboa, Portugal
Area of the Plot: 1172m2
Construction Area: above ground - 374m2
below ground - 282m2
total - 656m2
Architecture: Guedes Cruz Arquitectos - José Guedes Cruz, Cesar Marques, Marco Martínez Marinho
Architecture Collaborators: Patrícia Maria Matos, Nelson Aranha
Construction company: Bonorma
Landscaping: Paula Botas
Structure: PPE
Special installations: Espaço Energia
Supervision: Horácio Serras
The site is the plane where our projects become architecture.
It is on this that we build and what we see are the apparent forms, those which appear above this plane.
In the Alcoutins House the real form is that which has as a support a plane which is 3.5 metres below ground level. It is like a lake, where the volumes float or rest on the base, where we see only the part that appears above the waterline.
The Alcoutins House follows the production method of the space that supports our projects by making a study model in balsa wood and K-Line board. In this process it is worth mentioning the non- programmed, intuitive part; that which arises from sporadic acts free from any preconception other than the result of the analysis of the objective conditioning features of the site and of any regulatory system of the architectonic design.
This house is a contemporary of the Belas house, with just a few weeks between them, and its shape is also a result of the force of chance interfering in the process of composition based on logical analysis. A conversation around the table where bits of the model were lying, leftovers of the model of that house, which in their haphazard layout awaited someone to save them from the probable fate of the waste bin. With our eyes on the site map, our memory recalling the functional program of the house and our hands "playing "with the bits of card, plans were defined, volumes formed and thus the Alcoutins House was born. Rationalism and intuition in immeasurable steps and proportions.
Location: Lisboa, Portugal
Area of the Plot: 1172m2
Construction Area: above ground - 374m2
below ground - 282m2
total - 656m2
Architecture: Guedes Cruz Arquitectos - José Guedes Cruz, Cesar Marques, Marco Martínez Marinho
Architecture Collaborators: Patrícia Maria Matos, Nelson Aranha
Construction company: Bonorma
Landscaping: Paula Botas
Structure: PPE
Special installations: Espaço Energia
Supervision: Horácio Serras
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