Article source: Paulo Henrique Durão

BELOW GROUND, ABOVE AIR

I take Saramago once again: “My relation with time is, above all, very specific….when trying to express it graphically; I understand time as a large screen, a huge screen, where every single event is projected, including the oldest and the most recent. On that screen, everything is side by side in a kind of chaos as if time was compressed and flattened on that surface; as if events, facts and people were shown and assembled chaotically instead of being diachronically assembled, and we were meant to find a meaning.” (1)

Image Courtesy © Montserrat Zamorano Gañán

• Architects: Paulo Henrique Durão
• Project: House in Pedrogão
• Location: Pedrogão, Torres Novas, Portugal
• Photography: Montserrat Zamorano Gañán
• CLIENTS: Private
• STATUS: Built
• PROJECT: 2003
• CONSTRUCTION: 2006 . 2008
• COST: Confidential
• COLLABORATION: Daniel Gil Tomé, Nelson Mercê
• AREA: 285m2

SPECIALISTS

• Model: AlexandreCalado
• Structure: Eng Pedro Viegas
• Constructor: António José Santos Cons.
• Mechanics: Rui Regnaud
• Software used: AutoCAD