House in Agra / RVdM Arquitecto

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Esgueira, Portugal
  • Architect In Charge: Ricardo Vieira de Melo
  • Design Team: Ricardo Senos, Liliana Simões, Ânia Abrantes, Nuno Marques
  • Specialities: Da Vinci Lda
  • Project: 2009
  • City: Esgueira
  • Country: Portugal
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House in Agra / RVdM Arquitecto - Brick, Facade
© José Campos

Text description provided by the architects. The option of guiding the habitable compartments in only one direction: east / west, developed a set of porticos that intercalates the program. By the separation of these porticos it was achieved a volumetric fragmentation proposing alternate lights and shadows, in a game between interior and exterior. This set of fullness and emptyness stabilizes and de-hierarchizes the house, creating a unified and cohesive image.

House in Agra / RVdM Arquitecto - Facade
Courtesy of RVdM

The solid brick, the material that builds and composes the volumes confirms the tectonic option for the house. In a fractal reading of the house one notes that it is built from the element to the set by adding and subtracting.

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Sketch

Thus it is proposed an informal house in its spatial relationship, familiar in its introspection and fluid on its proposed pathways. A communicator device both internally and externally.

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© José Campos
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Floor Plan
House in Agra / RVdM Arquitecto - Brick, Facade
© José Campos

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Cite: "House in Agra / RVdM Arquitecto" 09 Oct 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/774973/house-in-agra-rvdm-arquitecto> ISSN 0719-8884

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