Excerpt: In Casas do Pinhal designed by PK Arquitetos contrasts were an important part of the concept. The design translates the contrast between privacy and wideness, light and shadow, and opacity and texture. The blind walls, give privacy to interior spaces, opposing large glazed windows facing south, framed by the garden.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] The volumes develop perpendicularly to the road, facing south. They land along the natural slope of the land, and the garage, with only one floor, finishes the volumetry.
The house basis begins as a wall, then surrounds the main volume and finally, again as a wall embraces the garage, giving a sense of continuity. The first floor swings on the lower floor, detaching from it, giving a sense of lightness to the whole.
Working contrasts were an important part of the concept. The design translates the contrast between privacy and wideness, light and shadow, and opacity and texture. The blind walls, give privacy to interior spaces, opposing large glazed windows facing south, framed by the garden.
Natural light penetrates in a controlled way through the roof, by four large skylights that illuminate the circulation spaces and through the wide windows facing south, overlooking the lawn.
The texture of the horizontal pergola, with linear elements, right-angled to the facade, creates a set of shadows. These same linear elements now set vertically, make the protections of the upper windows. These shutters run along the façade, creating different compositions and shadow effects on the elevation, varying with each different position.
Concrete, stone, wood and metal, are the elements that constitute the materiality of the whole. There is always a continuity of these materials from the inside to the outside, some strategic points of view reinforce this notion.
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