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.
Aurora Arquitectos: Sérgio Antunes, Sofia Reis Couto, Tânia Sousa, Rui Baltazar, Ivo Lapa, Carolina Rocha, Bruno Pereira, Dora Jerbic, Anna Cavenago, Afonso Antunes, Ana Bento, Kasia Cichecka, Claudia Silveira
FURO Atelier Arquitectura: António Louro, José Castro Caldas, Paula Vargas
The origin of the concept of Alferez house comes from the idea of a cabin in the wood and its romantic felling of a protective shelter in the middle of the forest. I wanted the house to look like a cube which would have crashed on the floor, among the trees.
The design of GDL 3 House located in Zapopan, Mexico, became a challenge due to the many restriction zones into the plot which led us to consider a house with a narrow front, developing the architectural program in a longitudinal direction from the front side to the rear side of the plot. At the same time, we took advantage of the restrictions zones to allow natural lighting and ventilation into the rooms.
The program composed by three floors and one underground garage place the bedrooms and bathrooms in the intermediate floor, and the social areas in the lower and upper floors. The materials palette was chosen to create sober, elegant, and contemporary environments.
Bar Orian Architects, a leading international architecture firm based in Israel and established by Tal and Gidi Bar Orian in 1990, today launches the design and completion of its latest innovative residential project “Philharmonica,” boasting two separate buildings. Philharmonic is located on the site of the original guest house and rehearsal space of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra in northern Tel Aviv at 28 Shai Agnon Street.
Located in a residential urbanization in Monzón (Huesca), the AURA building is made up of 14 single-family homes in a row, 12 of them between medians facing SE-NW, and 2 homes of three facades in the testeros.
The front of the plot is configured as a private outdoor space, for public use, which provides each dwelling with a pedestrian and vehicle access zone, which allows its occupation as outdoor parking for vehicles. Behind it, the garage “boxes” are located, and among them, pedestrian access to each home. The main construction of 2 heights and the volume of 1-height garages are separated by a landscaped interior patio. On the rear façade are the gardens of each house, related to the day stays.
The new Cap Can Roca is located in the center of the facilities of Can Roca, in the north-west of Terrassa, with a constructed area of 2,000m2 and 400m2 of green spaces.
The building occupies most of the available land, in order to be developed with the least number of floors. This allows easy access to users and optimal operation of the health activity.
Decisive and peremptory lines silhouette geometric volumes, define sharp proportions, and give the project an aura of elegant rationality. Built from scratch in a markedly contemporary style, without concessions to stereotypes or superfluous “special effects”, but rather in harmony with the idea of new minimalism that characterises the ethos of ZDA, Casa Loti expresses and interprets an experience of living that is paradigmatic in this sense: great importance has been given to the role of light, amplified by the use of large windows and sharp angles.
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.
Our clients from Canada were looking to get away from the winter season and enjoy the tropical weather so were very clear in wanting to create an oasis that blends indoors and outdoors.
Our common goal of respecting the existing trees and a natural creek the property had was a must. This would generate a family dynamic that will be both fun and healthy.
This project is a private house in Sagamihara, Kanagawa. This building faces toward a park and a river while keeping privacy. For all of the family to be able to always feel a sign of them, the living room, dining room and kitchen is in one big space, divided only by the steps.
It is a two-story building with a unique floating floor and an open ceiling, which is connected to a working space and a Japanese-style room on the second floor. In the dining room, a big umbrella shaped light is hung so as the family can gather and have a meal together under it. The site is quite narrow, but with the open ceiling and steps, the space can feel wider.
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