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- Architects: Corpo Atelier
- Location: Vilamoura, 8125 Quarteira, Portugal
- Architect In Charge: Corpo Atelier
- Team: Filipe Paixão, Rui Martins, Nicolò Martin
- Constructor: Window to the Future
- Area: 530.0 m2
- Project Year: 2017
- Photographs: Ricardo Oliveira Alves
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
“Sky of a fainting blue – beneath, a slap of whitewash. Reverberation of sun and the bluest blue, the whitest white. Cubes, geometric lines, animal light that trembles and vibrates like the wings of a cicada.”
Raul Brandão in “Os pescadores”
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Sketch
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Empty plots of similar shapes and sizes are aligned along a golf course, setting a frame for new urbanization of detached houses. Nothing was built. Due to the degree of uncertainty regarding future constructions, the house becomes introverted.
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Ground Floor Plan
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Two white walls (almost) completely withdraw any direct contact from future neighbors, setting clear boundaries. Between them, an architectural inner landscape of cubic shapes, each arranging a single function, provides a sense of security and protection while carefully framing the distant landscape. Only a horizontal volume, containing the swimming pool, contradicts this logic projecting itself to the South, emerging from the walls to offer a possibility of volunteered exposure, for a brief moment, before returning to the house.
© Ricardo Oliveira Alves
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