Home in Douro Valley / Logoexisto by Paz da Costa | Arquitetura + Interiores
Textual content description supplied by the architects. On a primary method to the positioning, its options appeared very acquainted, fashioned by “socalcos” a type of staggered panorama conventional to the Portuguese area of Douro vineyards, whose schist partitions sharply graze the surroundings. It didn’t precisely invite development…
At instances we get the sensation that some locations could be silent and balanced if we have been to not intervene. Others discover their which means within the intervention itself, and we start to think about them as image frames for an environment, a surroundings, a view. It’s between these two worlds that, we consider, architects ought to function – to know the best way to complement or full what God has left undone or unresolved.
This interpretation evokes the poetics and significance of place and placemaking by way of continuity and custom but additionally by way of evolution.
There isn’t any custom with out evolution, nor evolution with out custom. This notion brings us again to the concept that panorama is effective and to be revered and safeguarded.
We have an interest on this interstice between complement and full.
Aiming in the direction of contradicting what is clear – {that a} leopard can’t change its spots … however on the similar time, to plot an eloquent irony.
We realized that this place invited the usage of a brand new wall to narrate and dialogue with the opposite schist partitions that already resided there. This wall wanted virtually nothing else, it may very properly go on residing built-in throughout the present topography and over time change into part of the positioning, however the invitation had been made and we have been to design a home there.
As we set the constructing down, we sought to reconcile the panorama setting, photo voltaic orientation, 4 bed room typology, surrounding patio, privateness, and in addition the geometric determine that delimits the constructing plan, particularly a sq., which isn’t an ideal sq..
From this determine, a rotation was created selling the interstice. That’s, perched or thrown over the panorama. That is how the constructing must be.
It’s from this exaltation of the senses that we discover a house the place man can dream and transfer ahead, maybe in eloquent irony?
