Article source: Arquitectos Anónimos

The seaside around the town centre of VN Gaia (the city where we made this project) is undergoing a violent residential occupation with the ensuing conversion of its nature state. The fragments regardless architecture have piled up in disorderly ‘suburbia’, hidden under a shapeless agglomeration of private houses.

Image Courtesy © Abel Andrade 

• Architects: Arquitectos Anónimos
• Project: FFAT House
• Location: Vila Nova Gaia, Portugal
• Photography: Abel Andrade
• Date: 2005-2007 
• Building Type: Single housing – direct commission 
• Built Area: 270m2 
• Client: Fernando Afonso + Fátima Cardoso 
• Engineering Consultant: Manuel Branco Leite, Paulo Lima 
• Facade: “Wisa Trans” Plywood 
• Pavements: “SikaFloor” bituminous paint 
• Windows: “Hydro Systems” aluminium sliding windows 
• Glass: “Saint-Gobain” double grey glass 
• Ceramics: “Bisazza”