Diaphragms and vertical perspective. Windmill house by BOX arquitectos
12/01/2022.
[Ponta Delgada - Azores] Portugal
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Located on Moinho de Vento Street in the town of Ponta Delgada, the single-family house designed by BOX arquitectos has been planned to simulate a greater spatial amplitude in the plot of minimal dimensions where it is located.
Due to the use of unique skylights in the sloping roof, the residential project has increased its visual perspective, since the light is received and diffused to the various interior rooms homogeneously.
Due to the use of unique skylights in the sloping roof, the residential project has increased its visual perspective, since the light is received and diffused to the various interior rooms homogeneously.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Windmill house by BOX arquitectos. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.
Ground floor plan. Windmill house by BOX arquitectos.
First floor plan. Windmill house by BOX arquitectos.
Roof plan. Windmill house by BOX arquitectos.
Section. Windmill house by BOX arquitectos.
The project of BOX Arquitectos has a dimension of 4.20 meters in the front. Because of this, the facade becomes the only limit between the interior and the exterior. The first floor is used as a social space, while the second floor houses two small bedrooms.
The first-floor gains dimension in depth thanks to the encounter with the garden. The green area establishes an important balance with the house and the added private volume at the end of the plot.
The first-floor gains dimension in depth thanks to the encounter with the garden. The green area establishes an important balance with the house and the added private volume at the end of the plot.
Description of project by BOX arquitectos
In a consolidated urban mesh, at the center of Ponta Delgada, the approach answers to a program of an extremely small single family house with two flights, where the lower floor accommodates a single social area, while the two small bedrooms are located at the upper floor. With only 4.20 meters of frontage, with no space for urban pedestrian circulation area, the facade results in the child's imaginary of a house drawing... one door and one window.
In that sense, the main facade is exclusively the boundary between interior and exterior, with no reason for a relation between both, besides being in its way.
The program develops without the need of transitioning or dividing spaces. The only social space of the house gains dimension in its depth when it finds the garden at the end of the space. The garden establishes the balance with the house and the private addition at the end of the lot. At the upper floor, the East Bedroom gets a terrace, from which you can visualize the houses that make the urban form, so characteristic of the neighborhood.
The necessity to simulate a greater spatial amplitude is made possible by the skylights in the pitched roof, which receives the light and spreads it throughout the interior spaces, working as a " diaphragm", increasing the "vertical perspective".
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Collaborators
André Magina, Mariana Figueiredo. Engineering.- SOPSEC Açores. Interiors.- BOX arquitectos.
Client
Private.
Builder
Vicor caetano engenharia & construção, unipessoal, ldª.
Area
110 sqm.
Dates
2021.
Manufacturers
Location
Rua Moinho de Vento, Ponta Delgada, Ilha São Miguel; Azores, Portugal.
Photography
Bárbara Morgado, Óscar Catarino. box: arquitectos
box: arquitectos. Architecture firm founded by Bárbara Morgado and Óscar Catarino, in 2007 in Lisbon, with a strong connection to Ponta Delgada. box is based on creative, possibly unexpected, foundations capable of questioning pre-instituted architectural concepts and words.
Bárbara Morgado is architect from FA | UTL: Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon | 2004.
Óscar Catarino is architect from FA | UTL: Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon | 2004.
Bárbara Morgado is architect from FA | UTL: Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon | 2004.
Óscar Catarino is architect from FA | UTL: Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon | 2004.
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