Casa Em Brufe | OVAL

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Casa Em Brufe | OVAL

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  • Project Name: Casa Em Brufe
  • Practice: OVAL
  • Products: JNF , Bosch , Sanindusa , Ecosteel , W7 , Carplic , Vidraria Covelo , Mámores Santiago , lda , AYEME
  • Completion year: 2021
  • Project Location: NA
  • Country: Portugal
  • Lead Architects/Designer: Avelino Oliveira
  • Engineering: OMEGA
  • Contractors: Moreira Sampaio, lda
  • Project Manager: Jorge Fernandes
  • Interior + Furniture: Asil
  • Photo Credits: Ivo Tavares Studio
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Excerpt: Casa Em Brufe designed by OVAL was intended to be only a Single Floor Residence. The House is Basically, like a piece by Giacometti, there are two boxes connected by an empty space in which each one represents its home, one more open and public and the other more domestic and private.

Project Description

[Text as submitted by architect] The house was intended to be only a single floor. The land is almost flat and has a timid water line that borders the property to the west. The surroundings are marked to the south by a natural, continuous space as if it served as a backdrop for a long lawn.

Casa Em Brufe | OVAL
© OVAL

To the north, the well-kept main road is directly opposite a pre-primary school building. The housing is neither hidden nor facing the street. Its patio is the focal point of the volumes, it defines and defines itself.

Casa Em Brufe | OVAL
© Ivo Tavares Studio
Casa Em Brufe | OVAL
© Ivo Tavares Studio

The set is composed of two parts, a taller one representing the most public areas of the house, the entrance, the generous living room, and the kitchen (with pantry). The lower volume, facing the east side, organizes four rooms, a laundry, and an office, all arranged in a row.

Casa Em Brufe | OVAL
© Ivo Tavares Studio
Casa Em Brufe | OVAL
© Ivo Tavares Studio

Basically, like a piece by Giacometti, there are two boxes connected by an empty space in which each one represents its home, one more open and public and the other more domestic and private.

Casa Em Brufe | OVAL
© Ivo Tavares Studio
Casa Em Brufe | OVAL
© Ivo Tavares Studio

The patio spaces are the most important built spaces, as these elements make the house work. The glazing, 6 meters wide, slides only with mechanical support – it opens up for the family’s special moments and turns the house into an open space merged with the quadrangular patio. At the same time, this large glazing creates a mini enclosed patio adjacent to the pantry.

Casa Em Brufe | OVAL
© Ivo Tavares Studio
Casa Em Brufe | OVAL
© Ivo Tavares Studio

All the openings of the volumes seek a language in which the notion of the window as an element of the interior-exterior relationship is assumed. In the bedrooms, the need for seclusion led to the creation of a horizontalized wooden skin, which reinforces the grammatical exercise of a house that intends to be modern but contaminated by a search for fluidity and coherence in the architectural language.

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