Penafiel House
PENAFIEL HOUSE
Graciana Oliveira
ARCHITECTS
Graciana Oliveira
ENGINEERING
Graciana Oliveira, Cecília Machado, Filipe Ferreira
COLLABORATORS
Luís Barros
BUILDER
José Maria Construções Lda.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Joao Morgado
AREA
432 m²
YEAR
2012
LOCATION
Penafiel, Portugal
CATEGORY
Houses
Text description provided by architect.
In a new area of the city, overlooking the city park, the conditions of implantation, areas and levels, have already been defined in the building site.
The ground level is 1.50 meters above the level of the sidewalk.
Snipping the wall above this height minimizes its impact. The sight of this fence wall is hardly noticed when we are inside.
We intend to create volumetric purity, an austere, compact and monochrome volume.
The color, dark gray, is used for an intentional perception of reducing the scale of the house in relation to the building site.
In opposition to the dark and stern outside, in the inside the intention was to create a calm, clear and white space.
A free plan is used without losing the definition of each space and the functionality of the whole.
Circulations appear as a block, on the north side, maximizing the south orientation for the main part of the house program.
