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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. The Curved White House in Vagos, Portugal by Frari – architecture networkMarch 4th, 2023 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Frari – architecture network This house confronts one of the most important arteries in the city – the National Road EN109. Since it is designed for a residential use, the architectural piece is materialized in a uniform body which, through its shape and arrangement, protects itself from the busy road.  Image Courtesy © Ivo Tavares Studio
 Image Courtesy © Ivo Tavares Studio The house 109 has the main facade perpendicular to the layout of the road, contrasting with the pre-existing reality. Thus, the front facade becomes blind, with a green space of transition and protection being created between it and the road – a barrier that protects the house from environmental and sound pollution created by the referred artery and, at the same time, grants the necessary privacy to the house. The moment of entry, done discreetly through the north side, is celebrated by the great contemplation to the south thanks to the east-to-west windows that embrace the southern facade of the building, which is oriented perpendicularly to the confining artery. This way, the architectural piece, admittedly horizontal, ensures a side external space that follows the main façade. This space ensures a wide width able to meet the requirements that are imposed, working as a green area for leisure.  Image Courtesy © Ivo Tavares Studio  Image Courtesy © Ivo Tavares Studio All compartments are turning to this important external space, ignoring all other possible spaces that are never as favorable in terms of the natural light that they provide. The building, with its curved shape, ensures adequate protection from the wind at the porch, while certifying a greater depth of the external space on the house axis. All rooms look out over the external space through the porch, on the ground floor, or a joint balcony, on the top floor – elements that provide a uniform façade and allows for the volume to extend beyond its limits, always homogeneously.  Image Courtesy © Ivo Tavares Studio  Image Courtesy © Ivo Tavares Studio This horizontal facade, just as the plan sets out, allows the upper body of the house to rise and stand out, through the retreat of the ground limits, composed by Corten colored walls that, together with big windows, are distinguished from the unavoidable white body of the upper part of the building, in a game where structural balance and materiality mix together to lighten up a volume with great dimensions. The simple and solid piece, intends to position itself as a critical response to interventions in lands neighboring to national roads, solving the problematic of not being able to benefit from the external spaces and dictating the missing rule that enable these roads to have respectable habitability.  Image Courtesy © Ivo Tavares Studio  Image Courtesy © Ivo Tavares Studio  Image Courtesy © Ivo Tavares Studio  Image Courtesy © Ivo Tavares Studio  Image Courtesy © Ivo Tavares Studio  Image Courtesy © Ivo Tavares Studio  Image Courtesy © Ivo Tavares Studio  Image Courtesy © Ivo Tavares Studio  Image Courtesy © Frari – architecture network  Image Courtesy © Frari – architecture network  Image Courtesy © Frari – architecture network
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