Waataa _ Arq. Rita Diz

Meeting House

Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography

MEETING HOUSE

WAATAA_We are All together around Architecture

CATEGORY
Houses, Renovation, House Interiors

AREA
1819 ft²

LOCATION
Tondela, Portugal

YEAR
2020

MANUFACTURERS
Autodesk, Finsa, Recer, Sanindusa, Asm Taps, Aldeco, Graphisoft Se, Hidrobox, Incoveca

Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography
Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography

Text description provided by architect.

The house is designed in the historic center of Tondela and is a record of different time periods.

Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography
Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography

A small warehouse is converted into a house, marking the moment of the contemporary intervention, while simultaneously perpetuating the scale and idea of the surrounding urban context.

On the existing building, a central void is created increasing the contact perimeter with the outside.

Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography
Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography
Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography

The patio that is created receives light and shade, offers a new private and protected atmosphere.

A new relationship between interior and exterior, a continuous space that spread through the social areas of the house.

Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography
Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography
Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography

Being the heart of the house, it transports the exterior square to the interior allowing, when desired, a permeability with it.

Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography
Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography

Street, patio and terrace. The latter being an extension of the house that appears on a different level appropriating the roof and which is related to a more distant landscape.

Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography
Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography
Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography
Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography

Public and private, sociability and intimacy, encounter and retreat.This is a house that lives from these dichotomies.

A shared and collective space that supports the experience of family and friends.

Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography
Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography
Meeting House
Cortesia de WAATAA Photography

https://youtu.be/h6tVrpi8wvI

A comfortable and safe refugee that embraces the inner encounter from the understanding of one's identity, convictions and thoughts.


Meeting House
Cross section

Meeting House
Longitudinal section


Meeting House
Plan - Ground floor

Meeting House
Plan - 1st floor

Meeting House
Plan - Roof

Waataa _ Arq. Rita Diz
T +351 232 821774
Waataa _ Arq. Rita Diz
R. Eduardo António Coimbra 46, 3460-591 Tondela, Portugal