Fala

Uneven House

Uneven House
© Ricardo Loureiro
Uneven House
© Ricardo Loureiro

UNEVEN HOUSE

Fala

ARCHITECTS
Fala

CONTRACTOR
Civiflanco Lda

PROJECT TEAM
Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, Ahmed Belkhodja, Costanza Favero, Lera Samovich, Paulo Sousa

LANDSCAPE
Pomo

PHOTOGRAPHS
Ricardo Loureiro

AREA
180 m²

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Porto, Portugal

CATEGORY
Houses, Apartments

Text description provided by architect.

A ground floor shop and its basement were to be converted into an apartment.

An extension in the back was demolished to provide a garden, from which the new house would become the plinth to a cheerless 1960’s housing block.

Uneven House
© Ricardo Loureiro
Uneven House
© Ricardo Loureiro

Both levels are conceived as a main room spanning between the two façades.

The longitudinal spaces are defined by a straight white wall on one side, and a composite wall on the opposite (comprising three massive plywood doors to the secondary programs).

While the walls play their own formal game, the position of the doors and the finishes remain the same on both levels.

Uneven House
© Ricardo Loureiro
Uneven House
© Ricardo Loureiro
Uneven House
© Ricardo Loureiro

The inner logic also dictates the façade on the garden side, which acts as if the house was only one very tall level.

In fact, both levels have floor to ceiling glass openings towards the outside, thanks to a new staircase dug in front of the garden.

As the load-bearing structure of the building goes through the project, its visual presence is challenged by claddings of marble and mirrors.

The glorious stone pattern extends outside as a black and white striped frieze marking the perimeter of the garden, a grand horizontal window framing the context.

Uneven House
© Ricardo Loureiro


Uneven House

Fala
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Fala
Porto, Portugal