House in Agra
RVdM Arquitecto
ARCHITECTS
RVdM Arquitecto
ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Ricardo Vieira De Melo
CONTRACTOR
Martinho Pedrosa, Lda
SPECIALITIES
Da Vinci Lda
DESIGN TEAM
Ricardo Senos, Liliana Simões, Ânia Abrantes, Nuno Marques
YEAR
2013
LOCATION
Esgueira, Portugal
CATEGORY
House
Text description provided by architect.
The option of guiding the habitable compartments in only one direction: east / west, developed a set of porticos that intercalates the program.
By the separation of these porticos it was achieved a volumetric fragmentation proposing alternate lights and shadows, in a game between interior and exterior.
This set of fullness and emptyness stabilizes and de-hierarchizes the house, creating a unified and cohesive image.
The solid brick, the material that builds and composes the volumes confirms the tectonic option for the house.
In a fractal reading of the house one notes that it is built from the element to the set by adding and subtracting.
Thus it is proposed an informal house in its spatial relationship, familiar in its introspection and fluid on its proposed pathways. A communicator device both internally and externally.
