Excerpt: Lux is a residential architecture project by Mário Alves Arquiteto that aims to absorb the local characteristics and personify the horizontality present in the horizon line. The building’s blades around the main body create an elevation and design relationship, ensuring continuity with the existing urban fabric. To achieve harmony between the new and the place, the building absorbs predominant textures and tones in its materiality.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] The land is located between the beginning of the urban tissue and of Barra beach´s dunes – Ilhavo, given its location, the project is based on absorbing all the characteristics present in the place, personifying the horizontality present in the horizon line is the concept for the building, which translates into the blades created around the main body.
Elevation and design relationship in order to give continuity to the existing urban fabric. In order for there to be harmony between the new and the place, the building seeks to absorb the predominant textures and tones in its materiality.
The ochre concrete of the sheets and the green of the zinc show the color of the sand and vegetation, thus molding the building to the place. The sea and natural light are predominant elements both outside and inside the building, its opening to the horizon defines the projection of the design lines.
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