House in Matosinhos
The house is inserted in a lot with a non-regular shape, so, the architect propose a house with two floors, which are dissimulated in the facade with horizontal lines to point some alignments with the surrounding buildings.
The site:
The lot, where the house is inserted, have a non-regular shape, longitudinal and perpendicular to the street Nossa
Senhora da Conceição, Matosinhos.
In a consolidated urban area, the surrounding buildings, are, in most of the cases, buildings with a ground floor and attic.
These constructions for their constructive time presents nonconventional height.
The urban density of this road presents buildings with different temporal characteristics, and for that reason, with different
constructive approaches, with different elevations, materials, etc… a result of the growth and evolution of this road.
Formal and functional constraints:
It was important to keep the alignment of the house with the existing buildings in order to avoid formal irregularities in the
street development.
Concerning the volume, the house will be distributed in two floors (ground floor and 1st floor), which are dissimulated in
the facade with horizontal lines to point some alignments with the surrounding buildings.
Program:
It is proposed a house with two floors.
The interior spatial distribution is separated by function and by floors. The social/ service area, at the ground-floor, is
composed by the entrance hall, the toilet, the kitchen, the dining / living room, the vertical access to the 1st floor (stairs)
and the garage.
Due to the longitudinal nature of the lot, and the fact that it only detains two fronts for construction, it was proposed an
exterior yard at the center of the house to allow natural light to dining/living room and kitchen.
On the 1st floor, the private area, is composed by the rooms and its toilets and a lounge / reading area. At this floor, the
interior yard, gives some more natural light to the interior rooms.
technical information:
- Architecture - nu.ma | unipessoal, lda
- architect - nuno silva
- civil engineer - Rita Espanha, eng.
- electric engineer - José Carlos Lopes, eng.
- mechanical engineer - Pedro Simões, eng.
- construction - Moura & Dias, construções
- photography - ITS, Ivo Tavares Studio
- project details
- gross area - 220m2
- year - 2011-2016
- localisation - Matosinhos
