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six houses and a garden

Porto, Portugal

Project Featured on Oct 10, 2020
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six houses and a garden

Porto, Portugal

Project Featured on Oct 10, 2020
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2019
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
project team: filipe magalhães, ana luisa soares, ahmed belkhodja, rute peixoto, lera samovich, paulo sousa
landscape architect: pomo
contractor: civiflanco lda

Two buildings with a similar appearance, one very long and another very short. Six houses – four identical and two exceptional – around one common garden, hidden inside a city block. One architecture tying the fragmented reality.

The composition of each inner space combines orthogonal, diagonal and curved lines. The slightly distorted perimeter of the rooms sets the frames; the main spaces come from a subtraction of conflicting surfaces that comprise secondary programs. The thin metal poles bring in vertical tension; the round openings connect uneven programs. Acting within a very small volume, this combination of ambivalent geometries achieves quite unconventional living rooms.

The materiality of the awkward interiors follows their complexity. Walls are merely white, the horizontal slabs are abrupt concrete, the floors display polished blue marble and the tilted ceiling is painted in pink. Wooden doors, exaggerated handles and hints of pink marble accompany this game of surfaces.

On the outside, the houses define a continuous colonnade framing a collective garden where it becomes impossible to understand where each houses begins or ends. The façade is an overlap of several rhythmic rows - the thin metal columns, the striped blue doors, the black boxy skylights. The roof is made of two layers: a pink wavy plane is attached below the metal sheets emphasising the thinness of the surface. All around, the most honest and beautiful urban scenario defines the idyllic background for such an architectural exercise.


TEXTO PT
Dois edifícios semelhantes, um muito longo e outro muito curto. Seis casas - quatro idênticas e duas excepcionais - em torno de um jardim comum, escondidas num quarteirão da cidade. Uma arquitectura para amarrar a realidade fragmentada.

A composição de cada espaço interno combina linhas ortogonais, diagonais e curvas. O perímetro ligeiramente distorcido das salas define os limites; os espaços principais vêm da subtração de superfícies que definem programas secundários. Os elegantes pilares de metal trazem tensão vertical; as aberturas redondas ligam programas desiguais. Em volumes tão pequenos, esta combinação de geometrias ambivalentes resulta em espaços de estar peculiares.

A materialidade dos interiores segue sua complexidade espacial. As paredes são meramente brancas, as lajes e escadas em betão aparente, os pisos exibem mármore estremoz polido e o tecto inclinado é pintado de rosa. Portas de madeira, puxadores exagerados e toques de mármore rosa aqui e ali acompanham o jogo de superfícies.

No exterior, as casas definem um meio claustro, emoldurando um jardim coletivo, onde é impossível entender onde cada casa começa ou termina. A fachada é uma sobreposição de várias linhas rítmicas - as finas colunas de metal, as portas azuis listadas, as clarabóias pretas. O tecto é feito de duas camadas: um plano ondulado rosa é flutua por baixo das chapas de metal ondulado, enfatizando a pouca espessura da superfície. Em redor, um cenário urbano honesto define o pano de fundo idílico para o exercício de arquitectura proposto.

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