Windmill House

Windmill House
© Ivo Tavares Studio

Windmill House 

BOX arquitectos

ARCHITECTS
Box Arquitectos

MANUFACTURERS
Gubi, Nordlux, Forbo, Menu Space

INTERIOR DESIGN
Box Arquitectos

AREA
110 M²

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Ponta Delgada, Portugal

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

In a consolidated urban mesh, at the center of Ponta Delgada, the approach answers to a program of an extremely small single-family house with two floors, where the lower floor accommodates a single social area, while the two small bedrooms are located on the upper floor.

Windmill House
© Ivo Tavares Studio
Windmill House
© Ivo Tavares Studio

With only 4.20 meters at the front, with no space for urban pediatrician circulation space, the facade results in the child's imagination of a house drawing... one door and one window.

In that sense, the main facade is exclusively the boundary between interior and exterior, with no reason for a relation between both, besides being in its way.

Windmill House
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Windmill House
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The program develops without the need of transitioning or dividing spaces.

The only social space of the house gains dimension in its depth when it finds the garden at the end of the space.

Windmill House
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Windmill House
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Windmill House
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The garden establishes the balance between the house and the private addition at the end of the lot.

On the upper floor, the East Bedroom gets a terrace, from which you can visualize the houses that make the urban form, so characteristic of the neighborhood.

The necessity to simulate a greater spatial amplitude is made possible by the skylights in the pitched roof, which receives the light and spreads it throughout the interior spaces, working as a "diaphragm", increasing the "vertical perspective".

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Windmill House
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Roof plan
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Floor plan 1
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Floor plan 2
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