The site, located in a pronounced slope, comprises a parcel of terrain with mischaracterized surroundings, sprinkled with single family houses, wildly deployed in the area, that as a whole, are unable of stating a clear principle of spatial planning of the area they occupy. This context, marked by discontinuities and unbalances, was perceived as an incentive for a brainstorming in the construction of an architecture idea. Given this framework, we contrast a design able to confer to the new set its own identity, recognizable in a spatial planning where each housing unit is to be assumed as a part of the same indivisible whole. Therefore, we adopted a combination of row houses in order to obtain volumes whose dimension clearly detaches them from the surrounding area. Furthermore, and to better ensure the integrity of such volumes, we decided to arrange them in different leveled platforms, spaced throughout the slope.
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This is how we sought to ensure the stability of the volumetric set, through a planned monitoring of elevations and limits, essential to regulate the overall picture from as many points of view as possible, thereby trying to establish the planning principle for a balanced appropriation of the slope. The composition of the exterior volumes, based on the presence of the discrete structure and the modular and functional complicity among the solid spaces and voids, rehearses a balance between the unity of the whole and the individualized reading of each parcel, transforming the sum of the several fractions in large compact blocks where we sought to express the inseparability between individual and collective.
© Luis Ferreira Alves . Published on November 14, 2013.
© Luis Ferreira Alves . Published on November 14, 2013.
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© Luis Ferreira Alves . Published on November 14, 2013.
© Luis Ferreira Alves . Published on November 14, 2013.
© Luis Ferreira Alves . Published on November 14, 2013.
© Luis Ferreira Alves . Published on November 14, 2013.
© Luis Ferreira Alves . Published on November 14, 2013.
© Luis Ferreira Alves . Published on November 14, 2013.
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© Jose Gigante . Published on November 14, 2013.
© Jose Gigante . Published on November 14, 2013.
© Jose Gigante . Published on November 14, 2013.
© Jose Gigante . Published on November 14, 2013.
© Jose Gigante . Published on November 14, 2013.