House of Agostos, by Pedro Domingos, 2011 - Santa Barbara-de-Nexe, Faro, Portugal
The transformative substance of this project consists of a parcel of land that is integrated into the agricultural system of Barrocal and a small house in ruins. The ruin of traditional genesis, displays the characteristics of the vernacular architecture of the Algarve. The strategy consists on clarifying the limits of the central space of property - a void enclosed by the ruin and the “hedges” and the upland trees.
Casa das Canoas (Canoas House), by Oscar Niemeyer, 1951 - in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Niemeyer said of the matter: “My concern was to project the residence freely and to adapt it to the unevenness of the field without modification, making it into curves, so the vegetation could enter them without separation or departure from the straight line.”
“And I created the living spaces to be in a shadow, to avoid the need for curtains and allow the house to be transparent, as I preferred.”
Curtain Wall House, by Shigeru Ban, 1995 - in Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan
The clients wanted a contemporary home that would carry out the openness
of the traditional japanese house.
The project, situated on an constricted intersection in Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, consists of an elegantly spare two-floor block of open living spaces sandwiched between a large, overhanging triangular roof and deck that extend almost
to the curb line.
Around the perimeter of the triangle Shigeru Ban hung billowing white curtains that can be opened or closed to
regulate the degree of transparency between interior and exterior.
‘Mies invented the glass curtain wall’, Ban explained, ‘but I just used a curtain’.
House in Alenquer, by Aires Mateus, 2001 - in Alenquer, Portugal
Casa dos Cubos (Cube House), by Embaixada Arquitectura, 2007 - in Praceta Alves Redol 2300, Tomar, Portugal
(Artists Residence)
Casa Oscar Americano, by Oswaldo Bratke, 1953 - in Avenue Morumbi 3008, São Paulo, Brazil
Hooper House II, by Marcel Breuer, 1956–1959 - in Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
The Ash Street House, by Philip Johnson, 1942 - in Cambridge, Massachusetts (MA), US
