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House in Sequeiros / Topos Atelier de Arquitectura

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Text description provided by the architects. To adapt this old farmhouse to a dwelling-house the only necessary intervention was to demolish the partition walls. The house’s social areas were placed in the existing volume. 

House in Sequeiros / Topos Atelier de Arquitectura - Image 4 of 18
© Xavier Antunes

Only a wooden “little box” was set to screen the kitchen area. To host the bedrooms a box unattached to the ground, coated with z - shaped corten steel profiles, was created. 

House in Sequeiros / Topos Atelier de Arquitectura - Windows, Column, Beam
© Xavier Antunes

In a singular way, the conjunct reminds the traditional rural assemblage of the threshing-floor, granary and farmhouse, as well as a text by Alberto Campo Baeza on boxes: “Caixas, Caixinhas e Caixotes”.

House in Sequeiros / Topos Atelier de Arquitectura - Steel
© Xavier Antunes

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