Three adjacent houses with garden in Portugal

fala atelier completed the project of three identical houses, developed from a concrete skeleton abandoned for years.

fala atelier, Completed house, Marco, Portogallo 2019

A concrete structure of three adjacent houses had been abandoned for almost two decades. The original project (fortunately or unfortunately never realized) aimed at a pastiche of vernacular clichés. The new project takes up the original skeleton of the structure and interprets its limited qualities. In opposition to the fragmentary and celebratory series of elements imagined several years earlier, the elevations are defined by a grid of openings of equal size, equidistant from each other uniformly on a white background. The same windows and handrails are repeated on the front and back, the side walls are painted dark green, in contrast with the surrounding decorated sheds, with a play of inversion between inside and outside.

Inside, the three houses have a clear spatial hierarchy: the common spaces occupy the whole ground floor, in relation to the garden; the private program are organised on the first floor, with a view on the panoramas. A continuous living room connects the two sides of the building, leaving the existing structure and the new white walls in view, underlining the contrast. The plan is a rational construction exposed on a generous floor with large squares, punctuated by a rich black and speckled white marble fireplace.

fala atelier, Completed Houses, Marco, Portogallo 2019. ph. Ricardo Loureiro
fala atelier, Completed Houses, Marco, Portugal 2019. ph. Ricardo Loureiro
project:
Completed houses, Marco, Portogallo
architect:
fala atelier
project team :
Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, Ahmed Belkhodja, Chiara Carraro, Clara Pailler, Lera Samovich
contractor:
Ruce Lda
Area:
405 sqm
completion:
2019

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