OPO House

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OPO House

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Type

Residential › Multi Unit Housing

SIZE

5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft

BUDGET

$10K - 50K

Under the
new construction reality in emerging countries of southern Africa, such as
Angola and Mozambique, the cultural contexts has been growing rootless giving
the high level of international construction recently implemented. The project
aims to respond to the lack of relationship between the local people and the
new infrastructure that support those communities.
I intend to
implement a patio and pavilion, motivating outdoor experiences, as a way to
create neighborhood references that had been lost with the new buildings,
mostly designed by international teams without a great local knowledge or
concern.
The house
consists of two bodies, one private and the other social, mediated and served by
a central courtyard. The patio is an activity generating element. Two gates
enclose it on the tops and allow, when replicated, the house to be shared also
duplicating the yard. At the same time it links to public space. The house can
evolve and serve for larger families and maintain its spatial configuration.
The bedroom
core always turns east and the living room areas always faces west as the ventilation
process crosses from north to south through the patio’s gates. I intend to
apply a modular dry construction system and ensure an optimized construction
process. Two tanks will store and use the low percentage rainwater creating
thermal and acoustic insulation.

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João Inácio

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OPO House

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