Aradas House

Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

ARADAS HOUSE

Rvdm Arquitecto

ARCHITECTS
Rvdm Arquitecto

YEAR
2010

LOCATION
Aradas, Portugal

CATEGORY
Houses

AREA
562.0 m²

Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

The house builds a single level volume, in an abstract reading of a body laid on a gardened horizontal platform.

Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

A "plastic" character is assumed for the proposal, moulding exterior and interior spaces. On the outside the building sets courtyards and gardens.

The inside spaces are grouped by categories, ranking the house between intimate and social areas, between service and serviced areas.

Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Different ceiling heights help to clarify the uses denoting the social and meeting places.

Each body faces different quadrants. Three distinctive exterior spaces are organized around the house's functional distribution.

Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

The first sets the house's entrance courtyard, serving the garage and main entrance.

Others qualify different spaces, offering them unique characteristics: confronting the office, the living room, or defining the environment of the guest bedroom.

Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

FROM THE ENTRANCE COURTYARD ONE ACCESS CENTRALLY

The design privileges continuity, mainly through social areas, offering wide and informal spaces.

Living-room and kitchen are connected through a dining area and each one of these spaces searches for distinctive relations with the outside.

The living room privileges the contact with west and gardens, whereas the kitchen seeks the service spaces at east. The bedrooms, at south, are fragmented in two bodies, letting the guest suite stand-out.

Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

A common hall distributes to the three family bedrooms facing a narrow courtyard. The north side of the building houses the service areas, connecting garage, laundry and a studio that extends in a mezzanine, offering a filtered western light.

Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG


Aradas House
Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Aradas House
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG


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