Vilarinha House / TRAMA arquitetos

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Porto, Portugal
  • Architects: TRAMA arquitetos
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  5705 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2021
  • Photographs
    Photographs:João Morgado
  • Lead Architects: Bruno Leitão, Marco Bernardino
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Vilarinha House  / TRAMA arquitetos - Exterior Photography
© João Morgado

Text description provided by the architects. The site had as pre-existence a single-family residence of the 19th century, in a poor state of conservation and without architectural prominence. There was never any intention to maintain or restore the building, however, its high elevation stood out on the first visit to the site.

Vilarinha House  / TRAMA arquitetos - Exterior Photography, Facade
© João Morgado

Placing the building at the same height would allow, from the second floor, a view to the canopy that extends to the sea.

Vilarinha House  / TRAMA arquitetos - Exterior Photography
© João Morgado
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Plan - 1st floor
Vilarinha House  / TRAMA arquitetos - Interior Photography
© João Morgado
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Plan - 2nd floor
Vilarinha House  / TRAMA arquitetos - Interior Photography
© João Morgado

The greatest difficulty in accomplishing the program resulted from the morphology of the allotment, with its trapezoidal, narrow, tapered configuration.

Vilarinha House  / TRAMA arquitetos - Exterior Photography
© João Morgado

As it was essential that the house would result integrated with the surrounding vegetation, the project emerges as a volumetric game of voids and fills, along a longitudinal axis, which seeks to deconstruct this built mass, and whose main characteristic is its materiality.

Vilarinha House  / TRAMA arquitetos - Exterior Photography
© João Morgado

It was always our intention to explore natural and more raw materials, for better framing of the house with its natural surroundings. To do so, we chose to use the plasticity of concrete, giving it a yellow ochre pigment, combined with the wood lath and the copper.

Vilarinha House  / TRAMA arquitetos - Exterior Photography
© João Morgado
Vilarinha House  / TRAMA arquitetos - Exterior Photography
© João Morgado
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Longitudinal section
Vilarinha House  / TRAMA arquitetos - Exterior Photography
© João Morgado

The proposal is inserted in an urban plot with more rural traces and, in all the neighboring composition, something highlights it: to the west, we have the outline of the trees of the Parque da Cidade, into the sea; to the east, a group of pine trees that recreates a small forest; to the north, there is a community vegetable garden and, to the south, a group of old oak trees. Thus, all the openings were designed to take full advantage of the singularities of the terrain.

Vilarinha House  / TRAMA arquitetos - Exterior Photography
© João Morgado

The result is a distinctive dwelling in harmony with its context, without neglecting the architectural work of the forms and their functionality.

Vilarinha House  / TRAMA arquitetos - Exterior Photography, Facade
© João Morgado

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Cite: "Vilarinha House / TRAMA arquitetos" [Casa Vilarinha / TRAMA arquitetos] 18 Mar 2022. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/978540/vilarinha-house-trama-arquitetos> ISSN 0719-8884

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