The unexpected discovery of a cistern crosses the depth horizontally and connects with the sky, the most protected space of the house. The secular spaces were opened up to incorporate more significant uses. The garden made it possible to enhance the depth of the view over the Baixa rooftops and the river.Īn existing addition was rebuilt to house more private functions. The plan for the house elected spatial values, designed geometric affinities, precision in relation to exterior windows.
The estate existed ilustrating a period and an identity that were clouded due to extended neglet. Project DescriptionĪ succession of everyday spaces occupied the lower floor of an 18 th century building on castle hillside. Ever.Excerpt: House in Rua de São Mamede is an architectural project designed by Aires Mateus in Portugal.
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A long, patient job of cataloguing, done by hand: image after image, project after project, post after post. Known as the Patio House, the home features a private courtyard which can be seen immediately upon entry. Measuring over 2,600 square feet, the historic home was recently reimagined as an urban oasis by award-winning firm Aires Mateus. Every Collection in our Atlas tells a particular story, conveys a specific viewpoint from which to observe the last 20 years of contemporary architecture. Now up for grabs in Lisbon, Portugal, is a striking dwelling nestled in the coveted Príncipe Real neighborhood. Our model was the bookcase, on whose shelves we have gathered and continue to collect hundreds and hundreds of publications by theme. So we began to build divisare not vertically, but horizontally. May be because we wanted to distinguish divisare from the web that is condemned to a sort of vertical communication, always with the newest architecture at the top of the page, as the "cover story," "the focus."Ĭontent that was destined, just like the oh-so-new architecture that had just preceded it a few hours earlier, to rapidly slide down, day after day, lower and lower, in a vertical plunge towards the scrapheap of page 2.