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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

SO House in Porto de Mós, Portugal by Phyd Arquitectura

 
August 9th, 2019 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Phyd Arquitectura

Confrontation with the reality of these ruins was always a confrontation seeped in memories. Memories of a place where the raw matter it is constituted of – the rock, the valley and the mountain – shows evident expression, provoking a game of fine balance between place, matter, light and shadow.

We found light that dripped down the stone walls defining spaces separated only by rows of stacked rock. In each fissure, in each wrinkle, a soft balance between light and shadow.

Image Courtesy © emontenegro / architectural photography and Eduardo Montenegro

  • Architects: Phyd Arquitectura (Inês Belmarço, Inês Oliveira, João Ricardo Dias, João Gil Antunes, Marta Santos)
  • Project: SO House
  • Location: Parque Natural Serra de Aire e Candeeiros_Porto de Mós, Portugal
  • Photography: Eduardo Montenegro, emontenegro architectural photography
  • Construction: J.P.C.C.
  • Water Project: Infrel
  • Electrical Project: Infrel
  • Project: 2015
  • Construction: 2017

Image Courtesy © emontenegro / architectural photography and Eduardo Montenegro

Standing before this scenery, the exercise consisted in finding the most natural way to connect ruins and spaces, simultaneously defining future possibilities for links between the interior and the exterior. Where decisions were concerned, we chose to rehabilitate pre-existing volumes and introduce a new connecting element.

Image Courtesy © emontenegro / architectural photography and Eduardo Montenegro

Image Courtesy © emontenegro / architectural photography and Eduardo Montenegro

The answer is given by the almost immediate decision to join together the pre-existing elements. This gesture, deeply connected to the terrain along the pendente – connects the two sections facing west, forming an exterior courtyard adorned with a centenary olive tree.

This project builds a space that runs through the ruins, uniting them and revealing the obvious functional relationship between the house’s programmatic areas, simultaneously differentiating the possibilities for inhabiting the exterior space. It expresses its temporality through the antagonism of matter in its relationship with pre-existing elements.

Image Courtesy © emontenegro / architectural photography and Eduardo Montenegro

Image Courtesy © emontenegro / architectural photography and Eduardo Montenegro

Image Courtesy © emontenegro / architectural photography and Eduardo Montenegro

Image Courtesy © emontenegro / architectural photography and Eduardo Montenegro

Image Courtesy © emontenegro / architectural photography and Eduardo Montenegro

Image Courtesy © emontenegro / architectural photography and Eduardo Montenegro

Image Courtesy © emontenegro / architectural photography and Eduardo Montenegro

Image Courtesy © Phyd Arquitectura

Image Courtesy © Phyd Arquitectura

Image Courtesy © Phyd Arquitectura

Image Courtesy © Phyd Arquitectura

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