Irregularly positioned sq. openings dot the thick concrete exterior of Portugal's SV Home, just lately accomplished by structure studio Spaceworkers.
Positioned on a sloping lot close to the city of Sobrado, the indifferent three-story dwelling occupies land as soon as occupied by the consumer's grandfather's home.
It consists of slab-marked concrete, designed by Spaceworkers to 'stand out' but additionally current a 'quiet stillness' to the road, whereas sq. openings are positioned to border exterior views whereas sustaining privateness.
“The openings to the assorted areas transcend the easy want for air flow and pure air flow,” Spaceworkers defined.
“From the skin, they’re an necessary factor within the composition of the shares and the notion of the occupancy of the home, however with out revealing an excessive amount of,” the studio stated.
“Inside, these openings give attention to framing bits of the distant panorama, and even the sky, avoiding the house-dotted environment.”
Because of the sloping website, the doorway to SV Home is off the road on the primary ground with a ramped driveway resulting in a storage on the bottom ground.
Whereas solely two openings face the road, to the south of the home are sliding doorways that join a double-height dwelling space to a personal backyard.
A central, lighted staircase results in the second ground, the place the bedrooms get pleasure from intensive panorama views via sq. home windows.
“Every area takes a important take a look at a particular level within the panorama, permitting customers completely different views of the identical panorama relying on the place and dimension of the window they're ,” Spaceworkers defined.
Contrasting the pure concrete exterior, SV Home's interiors are completed in pale wooden and white partitions, with minimal window frames emphasizing the deep reveals.
“On the skin, using uncovered concrete emphasizes the concept of solidity that we needed to precise in distinction to the sunshine wooden and white partitions of the inside that specific lightness,” defined the studio.
“It’s also on this dichotomy that the home connects with its neighbors and people who stay in it and stroll via its areas.”
Portuguese structure studio Spaceworkers was based by Rui Dinis, Henrique Marques and Carla Duarte in 2007.
The studio's earlier tasks embody the Romanesque structure interpretation middle in Lousada, which was additionally designed with blocked concrete types, and a home with a concrete roof and concave sides.
Picture by Fernando Guerra.