HOUSE WITH GLASS WALLS
Fala
ARCHITECTURE
Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, Ahmed Belkhodja, Lera Samovich, Rute Peixoto
YEAR
2021
LOCATION
Porto, Portugal
CATEGORY
Houses, Renovation
An old palace-like house. Narrow and very long. Abandoned for some time.
Outside, everything had to remain the kind of the same; heritage rules dictated such fate.
In the back, the garden became a small oasis within the dense urban mesh.
Inside, the prominent staircase was revamped.
the rooms, which had little or nothing of value remaining, were depurated to their bare minimum, - their perimeter, - and filled with evenly spaced glass walls.
On a romantic background, the plan was drawn like a filmstrip: pure sequence. Still, all scenes appear at once.
