Portuguese studio Spaceworkers has accomplished a geometrical backyard pavilion close to Porto with a pitched roof and monolithic partitions product of concrete and inexperienced ceramic tiles.
Pavilion within the Backyard is a multipurpose occasion area situated on a former parking zone on the inexperienced fringe of the Portuguese village of Sobrado.
Searching for to seize the “essence” of this place, the area staff created a glazed, column-free inside meant to really feel like an extension of the encompassing panorama.
“The seek for essence could be understood as making an attempt to grasp and categorical the true nature of one thing, on this case the connection between man, nature and structure,” Marques advised Dezeen.
The backyard pavilion consists of two staggered concrete blocks containing customer services and providers. They assist a big trellis cover pierced by sq. skylights, which sits above a central occasion area.
Full-height sliding glass doorways envelop the occasion area, whereas the cover and stone ground prolong outwards to create a sheltered terrace round its edges.
“We managed to have a notion of lightness within the constructing, additional accentuated by the obvious fragility with which the heavy plate rests on a really informal contact with a pillar, liberating all the room from any structural parts,” Marques advised Dezeen.
“This lightness and sense of integration helps us scale back the venture to its most simple essence, which in observe are two dominant supplies in a volumetric composition the place the stability of parts is the dominant ingredient,” he added.
Whereas the Backyard's rooftop Pavilion has an uncovered concrete end, marked with planking, the supporting volumes and a slender vertical column have been clad in inexperienced, marble-effect ceramic tiles.
“The selection of supplies was primarily based on two features, the primary associated to the discount of long-term upkeep – the uncooked supplies, akin to concrete and ceramic facade coating, don’t require a lot upkeep past cleansing their stains,” mentioned. Marquis.
“The second side is said to making an attempt to combine the constructed mass into the pure context, in order that the constructing blends in with its environment, thus decreasing its affect regardless of its scale,” he added.
A bar sits to the south of the central space, whereas to the east a buried serving counter with a pizza oven is lined with matte gold panels.
Spaceworkers was based by Rui Dinis, Henrique Marques and Carla Duarte in 2007. The studio's earlier initiatives embrace a concrete home in Sobrado, pierced by deep home windows, and a museum in Lousada devoted to the historical past of Romanesque structure.
Picture by Fernando Guerra.