QST House
NOARQ
ARCHITECTS
Noarq
PROJECT TEAM
Joana Lp, Luís Lima
ENGINEERING
Eng. Marco Cunha
LEAD ARCHITECT
José Carlos Nunes De Oliveira
PROJECT MANAGER
André Oliveira
MANUFACTURERS
Autodesk, Bruma, Smeg, Noarq + B.loft, Tudemmad, Trimble Navigation
LOCATION
Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal
CATEGORY
Houses, Extension
Text description provided by architect.
The house rises from broad blocks of blue granite into the wilderness, like a fortification, indistinct from the supporting walls at the edge of the street. It backs up the old farmland, now transformed into a garden.
The silhouette embedded in the roadside is opened up by timid windows on the upper floor.
By the connection with the street, a sequence of cattle crevices illuminates the current kitchen. The building stretches itself till the oxblood-coloured gate, pointing to the threshing floor moulded into the granite of the street wall.
Above the entrance, tended towards the east, a wooded room painted in the colour of the gate, of the eaves and of the window frames lay suspended. The building was cleaned up of picturesque motifs, sheds, shutters and loose exoticism.
On the inside, we redesigned each and every constructive piece; the stripped reality was reinvented.
