House in fontaínhas | fala

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House in fontaínhas | fala

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  • Project Name: House in fontaínhas
  • Practice: fala
  • Completion year: 2019
  • Gross Built up Area: 255 sqm
  • Project Location: Porto
  • Country: Portugal
  • Design Team: filipe magalhães, ana luisa soares, ahmed belkhodja, rute Peixoto, lera samovich, elisa sassi, paulo sousa
  • Landscape Consultants: pomo
  • Contractors: Civiflanco lda
  • Photo Credits: Ricardo Loureiro
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Excerpt: House in fontaínhas, designed by fala, is structured within overlapping antagonistic spatial structures dissolving into the garden, a precisely divided piano nobile, and a headstrong roof. The complexity is introduced to accommodate all the necessary programs, adapting to the narrow perimeter of the site. A set of equally distanced wooden beams supporting the roof causes inconvenient intersections. The striped concrete cornice is introduced on both elevations and a blue circle, aligned with an unnecessary pink column, ends the peculiar composition.

Project Description

[Text as submitted by architect] The project is structured within overlapping antagonistic spatial structures. The ground floor is conceived as one uninterrupted space defined by a free curved wall. It is a volatile room with only one corner and two continuous white surfaces opening up to the vivid garden. Its inner elevations are carefully calculated.

House in fontaínhas | fala
© fala
House in fontaínhas | fala
© Ricardo Loureiro

Conversely, the first floor is a composition of intricate rooms and rhythmic collisions of different geometries, a sequence of irregular spaces. The complexity is introduced to accommodate all the necessary programs, adapting to the narrow perimeter of the site. A set of equally distanced wooden beams supporting the roof causes inconvenient intersections.

House in fontaínhas | fala
© Ricardo Loureiro
House in fontaínhas | fala
© Ricardo Loureiro

In contrast with the opposing spatial orders, materiality holds the house together. Fluent white walls are stuck between striped wooden floors and light blue ceilings, disturbed once in a while by flat blue doors, touches of marble or a pink kitchen.The back façade didactically reflects the three orders. The ground floor is completely open to the garden while on the first floor a single window frames a certain perspective of the dense context.

House in fontaínhas | fala
© Ricardo Loureiro
House in fontaínhas | fala
© Ricardo Loureiro

The striped concrete cornice is introduced on both elevations and a blue circle, aligned with an unnecessary pink column, ends the peculiar composition. A ground floor dissolving into the garden, a precisely divided piano nobile, a headstrong roof.

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