House With Glass Walls / fala

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  • Architecture: filipe magalhães, ana luisa soares, ahmed belkhodja, lera samovich, rute peixoto
  • Engineering: paulo sousa
  • Landscape Design: oh land
  • Contractor: jst
  • City: Porto
  • Country: Portugal
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House With Glass Walls / fala - Exterior Photography, Windows, Door, Facade
© Ivo Tavares Studio

Text description provided by the architects. An old palace-like house. Narrow and very long. Abandoned for some time. 

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Outside, everything had to remain the kind of the same; heritage rules dictated such fate. In the back, the garden became a small oasis within the dense urban mesh.

House With Glass Walls / fala - Interior Photography, Glass, Bench, Windows
© Ivo Tavares Studio
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House With Glass Walls / fala - Interior Photography, Stairs, Handrail
© Ivo Tavares Studio

Inside, the prominent staircase was revamped. the rooms, which had little or nothing of value remaining, were depurated to their bare minimum, - their perimeter, - and filled with evenly spaced glass walls.

House With Glass Walls / fala - Interior Photography, Chair, Glass
© Ivo Tavares Studio
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House With Glass Walls / fala - Interior Photography, Windows
© Giulietta Margot
House With Glass Walls / fala - Interior Photography, Windows, Glass
© Giulietta Margot

On a romantic background, the plan was drawn like a filmstrip: pure sequence. Still, all scenes appear at once. 

House With Glass Walls / fala - Interior Photography, Windows
© Giulietta Margot

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Cite: "House With Glass Walls / fala" [Casa com Paredes de Vidro / fala] 27 Jun 2023. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1002999/house-with-glass-walls-fala> ISSN 0719-8884

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