A new project titled CASA ED & JO features a clean and curved design by NOARQ. The renovated house is located in Famalicão, Portugal with tucked away patios inside a triangular urban plot.
The lot is highly exposed due to different topographies between the adjoining streets. For this reason the house is closed on the north side to create more privacy. The house opens up on the east side where light enters the kitchen and the whole of the south facing front is open under a curved shade cover.
The house consists of two floors rehabilitated from the original structure. The first floor was expanded to preserve the garage, entrance, and vertical access storage area.
The second floor functions as the main area of the house consisting of open lounging rooms and the more private bedrooms.
Due to the sloping topography of this unique lot, the design insures that elevations in the corners converge with those on the surrounding roads. The surrounding wall are also designed to hold back the earth on the west side below street level and on the east side above.
Small patios cut out of the volume create lighting for the other rooms in the house.
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looks conceptual
Aside from a single sweeping parapet, how is this a "curved house"? Look at the photos, drawings, and sketches. It's orthogonal and angular. (It could be called a "glass house" if all that was considered were the windows.)
Of course this is not a big deal. But we complain about much of the writing on architecture out there. Let's not worry about the nuances of critique until we get the basics right.
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