MORTUARY HOUSE IN VILA CAIZ by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz
02/06/2014.
[Vila Caiz, Amarante] Portugal
metalocus, ÁNGEL BLANCO
metalocus, ÁNGEL BLANCO
This mortuary house in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso and Graça Vaz, shows us two faces, one hand white walls and on the other hand, walls with perforated concrete blocks are creating patterns of light and shadow inside, in fact, a place of mourning and contemplation for citizens of this small community.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos. Click above to see larger image.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos. Click above to see larger image.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos. Click above to see larger image.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos. Click above to see larger image.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos. Click above to see larger image.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos. Click above to see larger image.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos. Click above to see larger image.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos. Click above to see larger image.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos. Click above to see larger image.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos. Click above to see larger image.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos. Click above to see larger image.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos. Click above to see larger image.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos. Click above to see larger image.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos. Click above to see larger image.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos. Click above to see larger image.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos. Click above to see larger image.
Site plan. Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz. Click above to see larger image.
Ground floor plan. Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz. Click above to see larger image.
Elevations. Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz. Click above to see larger image.
Elevations. Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz. Click above to see larger image.
Mortuary House in Vila Caiz, North of Portugal by Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz.Photography © Jose Campos.
The building was designed by constructed on a tiny plot close to the village church, between two worlds, the project emphasise the urban and rural contexts, on one side road and residential context and on the other the agricultural countryside.
Description of the project by Architects
Integrated in a hybrid residential context which crosses urban and rural references, the mortuary house emerges as a filter between them and a universe of contemplation of the distant mountains.
Bounded by a municipal road, a farmland and the Church of Vila Caiz, the constructed volume results from the confluence between the axes of delimiters ground, framing the landscape and solar orientation.
The materiality of the building integrates and filters the context in which it operates through grilles cover crops in concrete (filter of light and views) granite floors, walls and paneling in conjunction with the whiteness of the walls.
The interior space results mainly from three major interconnection between spaces defined by an atrium and two rooms that can be joined or fragmented depending on the circumstances.
The view of the distant mountains combined with the water from a tank that strategically reflects in the slope of the roof and walls of the mortuary are factors that catalyze an environment of neutrality, silence and introspection.
CREDITS. DATA SHEET.-
Architects.- Graça Vaz & Raul Cardoso
Project Area.- 110.5 m²
Location.- Vila Caiz, Amarante, Portugal
Year of conclusion.- 2013
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VAZ GRAÇA FALCÃO
Graça Falcão Vaz (Porto, 1984), architect since 2008, started her path in Porto where she collaborated in the 1st prize winning project for Mercado de Ermesinde with VAStudio, having proceed her career in Belgium with Poponcini&Lootens architects in the competition cells, and in the winning prize project, Artesis Hogeschool for Antwerp and many more projects, more recently she collaborated in the Habitat Museum, Al Shaheed Park project for Kuwait City and with the 3D company Tridikiwi.
RAUL SOUSA CARDOSO
Raul Sousa Cardoso, (Marco de Canaveses, Portugal, 1985), architect since 2008, begins his liberal professional career right after his academic formation through the direct invitations to a high portfolio of projects with a range of themes, since commercial spaces, restoration, service, rehabilitation of housing, redesigning facades, landscaping, and interior redesign.
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