Meeting House / WAATAA_we are all together around architecture

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Meeting House / WAATAA_we are all together around architecture - Exterior Photography, Aerial View Photography
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Text description provided by the architects. The house is designed in the historic center of Tondela and is a record of different time periods. A small warehouse is converted into a house, marking the moment of the contemporary intervention, while simultaneously perpetuating the scale and idea of the surrounding urban context.

Meeting House / WAATAA_we are all together around architecture - Exterior Photography, Facade
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On the existing building, a central void is created increasing the contact perimeter with the outside. The patio that is created receives light and shade, offers a new private and protected atmosphere, a new relationship between interior and exterior, a continuous space that spread through the social areas of the house. Being the heart of the house, it transports the exterior square to the interior allowing, when desired, a permeability with it.

Meeting House / WAATAA_we are all together around architecture - Interior Photography, Kitchen
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Plan - Ground floor
Meeting House / WAATAA_we are all together around architecture - Interior Photography, Dining room, Table, Chair
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Street, patio and terrace. The latter being an extension of the house that appears on a different level appropriating the roof and which is related to a more distant landscape.

Meeting House / WAATAA_we are all together around architecture - Interior Photography, Living Room, Windows
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Longitudinal section
Meeting House / WAATAA_we are all together around architecture - Interior Photography
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Public and private, sociability and intimacy, encounter and retreat. This is a house that lives from these dichotomies. A shared and collective space that supports the experience of family and friends. A comfortable and safe refugee that embraces the inner encounter from the understanding of one's identity, convictions and thoughts.

Meeting House / WAATAA_we are all together around architecture - Interior Photography, Bedroom, Windows, Bed
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Meeting House / WAATAA_we are all together around architecture - Exterior Photography
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Cite: "Meeting House / WAATAA_we are all together around architecture" [Casa do Encontro / WAATAA_we are all together around architecture] 13 Aug 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/945508/meeting-house-waataa-we-are-all-together-around-architecture> ISSN 0719-8884

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