An organic house where Architect Sandra Casinhas was inspired by white petals for the exterior volume, while the internal curved walls and earth tones define its spatiality and connectivity with nature.
Composed of an overlapping of pure volumes, its arrangement corresponds to the desire of creating a visual barrier between living spaces and the street, allowing maximum privacy to be achieved.
The concept of the building was created taking into account the company’s principal activity, thisbeing, the production of bakery and pastry machines which produce dough for bread and pastries.
The renovation of a historic building in Vila Nova de Foz Côa by the architect Filipe Pina, using slate and shale as the main elements, creates a new contemporary home that respects the city’s history.
In Santa Marinha we had to make three entrances. I don’t remember doing anything like that, although that’s what we enjoy the most – drawing the entrance, and also drawing the terrain. And it is always the most difficult delivery.
The “Ponte House” project was developed with the aim of integrating the house into the morphology of the land, with its narrow and extended configuration, and ended up dictating the volumetric of the house in the same way.
The Curved White House confronts one of the most important arteries in the city – the National Road EN109. The house 109 has the main facade perpendicular to the layout of the road, contrasting with the pre-existing reality.
The Forte house is designed in a complex balance between the creation of a dense and closed fortress and the reinterpretation of the typical patio house, looking for a protected oasis, in its intimate relationship with the sky.
