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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. Four Buildings in Avenida Brasil in Cascais, Portugal by Aurora Architects + FuroApril 8th, 2023 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Aurora Architects + Furo The project consists of a set of residential buildings with about 3300 m2 located in Cascais. The studios Aurora Arquitectos and FURO sign the architecture. The site and the great height difference between the street fronts were the generating principle to create four volumes of semi-detached houses. Each of the eight houses is organized into three levels, with the middle level being the social floor. Conceptually, this floor is an open plan divided by functional volumes that house the kitchen, a bathroom, or a closet. The façade is completely glazed. The fluidity of the plan and the transparency of the façade are combined to give the perception of continuity between the interior floor and the landscaped exterior surface that covers the garage and is at the same level as this floor.  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos
 Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos The remaining floors house the bedrooms and are designed in a more reserved way with more contained openings and façade panels covered with handmade brick. On the roof of each house, a terrace and a pool offer a wide view over the bay of Cascais and evoke the hedonistic relationship that this city has with the sea and the summer. Connecting all the volumes is a semi-buried garage that takes advantage of the difference in heights of the site to open to the north and communicate directly with the garden – a house for cars  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos The landscape, designed by the studio Baldios, help to define three distinct areas: to the south, the area corresponding to the garage roof, low vegetation, bushes, and paths solve access to the houses; to the north, a flatter area presents itself with a meadow-like vegetation cover and wooden equipment that invites you to stay; even further to the north, an area with a steep slope receives larger vegetation that attenuates the volumes of the buildings when seen from the street at the lower level. Paths that invite to the exploration of the landscape connect all these areas.  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Do Mal o Menos  Image Courtesy © Aurora Architects + Furo  Image Courtesy © Aurora Architects + Furo  Image Courtesy © Aurora Architects + Furo  Image Courtesy © Aurora Architects + Furo
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