This home in Portugal turns the Convention upside down – starting from the roof

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Location: Matosinhos, Portugal

From architect: “Unexpected figure arises within the defined print. The conventional slant roof of suburban houses was reversed – one side curved, other front characteristics of a peculiar silhouette that interferes with the monotony suburbs. The strength reminds of the explosion a box sitting on a transparent stand. Different vertical and sloping surfaces separate with different colors, each carefully selected. Round and square windows were thrown by white canvas, compiling three different heights; Some look mimic, some evoked imaginary animals. The playful palette of the facade extends to blue and green eyelids, covering up openings and providing a house similar to a paper collage, where colored figures are scattered per white Canvas. Shades of green, blue, light green, black, white and green. On the inside, the structure is divorced from the wall: a number of five slender, light green concrete pillars is revealed in different rooms, distracting everyday routines. One of these columns is on the terrace that supports nothing. The living space on the ground floor is open for the garden and connected to the upper office. The complexity of sporadic interior results in double height spaces, occasional kinks in walls, concrete pillars and a light sloped ceiling. On the upper floor, the base bedroom is located its place within the extruded space within the quarter circle. The house is carefully compiled outside the surfaces straight, folded, cut, curved and tilted – whether it is made of concrete, marble or glass bricks. They are shared, overlapping, intersecting and covered. These surfaces are anchored columns that are bravely hit. Interior spatial spaces between choreographic elements. The figure of the house was completed and broken at the same time. “