Excerpt: The residence Riscowhite, designed by Risco Singular – Arquitectura, Lda, resembles a striped white concrete block that is elevated on two levels to capture the beauty of the surroundings. An attempt to convey the existing language—a small housing unit—was designed as part of transmitting the site’s natural condition, the architecture, and acknowledging the site and its historical legacy.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] The residence is located on the south bank of the River Cávado in Barcelinhos, offering a wide green landscape immortalized by the Palace of the Dukes of Bragança and the Medieval Tower.
The land is presented on two elevated platforms, supported by high granite walls and hawks from which small flowers emerge. It is here that RiscoWhite is located.
In the act of transmitting its natural condition, the architecture, and accepting the site and its historical legacy, an attempt to transmit the existing language—a small housing unit—was designed without speculation or ambition.
RiscoWhite appears as a striped white concrete block, torn silently, that extends along the lowest platform, where the volumes gravitate in the serenity of the place, in a game of two heights that enjoys its immense landscape.
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