Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. A house in movement
05/10/2017.
[Vilamoura] Portugal
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Five terraces and a garden is a single house project in Vilamoura, Portugal, which is integrated into a plot overlooking golf courses.
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Five Terraces and a Garden by Corpo Atelier. Photograph © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
The house design of Corpo Atelier is based on a volumes game, they are retracted and moved from the limits, almost like the kids game jenga, getting terraces, vegetation that seems to cross the floors, and a building in movement.
Description of the project by Corpo Atelier
"The terrace was the prodigy of the house, in it the wind passed.
I had started to discover the body and had the light for confident."
Eugénio de Andrade . Branco no branco contra a obscuridade
A golf course is limited by empty plots for detached houses and scattered trees of various types and heights. At the ground level an immense lawn is only interrupted by sandboxes and low vegetation arrangements. Above it, between the foliage of the treetops, we discover the distant views of the ocean (to the South) and the mountain (to the North).
Five white terraces are stacked to allow us to move vertically and experience these different scales of the surrounding landscape. The voids between them create space for human and vegetal occupation, constantly hidden or revealed, formalizing the illusion of an interior garden or an exterior house.
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Architects
Corpo Atelier
Design Team
Filipe Paixão
Date
2015
Corpo Atelier
Corpo Atelier is an architecture & art atelier focused on the exploration and expansion of the architectural anatomy.
Based in Vilamoura and Lisbon, Corpo was founded in 2014 by Filipe Paixão. The office operates in various fields of contemporary architecture, from medium to small scale projects, either in the form of new construction or refurbishment.
Corpo is specialized in the creation of unique projects that seek a deep relationship between the architectural object, the landscape that receives it and the cultural specificity of such landscape, designing meaningful spaces for intimacy and contemplation, through a sensitive and rigorous approach.
