Casa D

Braga, Portugal

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Casa D

Braga, Portugal

Firm

L2C Arquitetura

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2022

SIZE

5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft

BUDGET

$1M - 5M

The studio was contacted to develop a housing project for a family of five that would meet their own family dynamics.
Due to its location, the existing vegetation on the site and the breathtaking view of the city of Braga played a leading role in the project.
The idea was that large volumes placed on the highest part of the land would organize the interior and exterior space through their arrangement and orientation. Its volumetric shape and openings allow for more private spaces, protecting its interior from the street, as well as from neighbouring buildings. The south and west elevations contemplate larger openings taking advantage of the landscape. The house opens up to the outside through the spaces generated between them, while protecting its interior.
If, on one hand, the boxes placed horizontally establish a relationship with the surroundings, extending the interior spaces to the outside, on the other hand, the entrance is marked by one of these boxes placed vertically that calls us to its interior at the same time that articulates the two floors of the house.
The goal was to obtain an image of the facade and volume of great simplicity and geometric rigor that reflects the different use of the interior spaces and a relationship between the solution and the terrain.
D House hides its structural complexity through its volumetric simplicity.
On the ground floor are located all the social spaces, including the living and dining room where the relationship with the outside is made through a system of mechanized window frames that can open completely to create a unique space with the pool and garden, allowing the extension of the entire house to the outside, promoting its appropriation. The exterior is part of the house itself. Further north and closer to the street is the kitchen that communicates directly with the outside, with the dining room, garage, laundry, changing rooms and gym. A study room and a multimedia room for children of different ages complete the program.
On the upper floor of the house are the bedrooms, all with private bathrooms and a balcony.
The use of natural materials, such as stones and noble woods, and organic elements, such as the vertical garden and landscaped roofs, give the house a unique personality.
Light as a fundamental element of the architecture was worked according to the needs and characteristics of each space, where the skylights used in the bathrooms and stairwells stand out and, in the access corridor to the rooms, a low window next to the floor that gives privacy.
The dynamics of light in the interior spaces give those who walk through them a different scenography throughout the day.
A contemporary architectural design solution was intended that, due to the extreme simplicity of the language adopted, could assume a strong formal and volumetric clarity, privileging, as mentioned, the relationship of the house with the land and the surroundings where it is inserted.

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