House in Moreira by Phyd Arquitectura

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西班牙建筑师Alberto Campo Baeza向gooood推荐了年轻葡萄牙建筑事务所Phyd Arquitectura的这个作品。
Alberto Campo Baeza亲自写了评论“A house where time stands still”。

这座住宅的业主是一对夫妇和他们的两个一男一女的孩子。清晰的混凝土盒子三段式的立在场地之中。两个内凹院子为住宅带来了流动的光与风。建筑师用最为本质的方法来表达质量与光。

Alberto Campo Baeza在评论文章“A house where time stands still”中形容这座房子具有本质性的永恒之美。神秘的混凝土坚体被智慧的进行切分，两个缝隙引入光与风，在张力之中体现无限的趣味感。光刺入建筑，在室内如音乐般的跳动。匀称的布局，不对称的空间布置。与建筑师前两个也突出的作品相比，这个作品更为成熟与精湛。Phyd Arquitectura的建筑师Paulo H. Durao是Alberto Campo Baeza的学生，这个作品算作他的博士论文。柏拉图提出：美是真理的光辉，是每个创造者的梦想。这个作品就是Paulo H. Durao创造出的本质之美。

A HOUSE WHERE TIME STANDS STILL

The architect Paulo H. Durao’s house in Moreira

The house that Paulo H. Durao built in Moreira is a gem- a house where time stands still. Heidegger writes that for Aristotle “being” signifies “presence”, present. And following on from this concept of being, the future is that “not-yet-being” while the past is that “no-longer-being”.

This quite radical house in Moreira by Paulo H. Durao is a house of present, past and future. A house so radically beautiful that it is timeless, beyond time, capable of detaining time.

There are houses, works whose spectacular characteristics immediately situate them in the history of architects. They cause such a sensation that with the relentless passage of time they soon become obsolete. Will-o’-the-wisps, one-day wonders.  Then there are other houses, other works that pass into the History of Architecture for their rigor and depth, their truth and beauty. They are favored by the passage of time and remain in the memory of the people. Like this house in Moreira.

EXTRACTION MECHANISMS

The house, mysterious and hermetic, appears before us like an impressive closed drawer of reinforced concrete. It looks like the embodiment of the advice given by Berthold Lubetkin, the great Russian architect, who at the end of his life said that he had made nothing more than concrete shoe-boxes.

Demonstrating great wisdom with this box, Paulo H. Durao has excavated the precise incisions for light and air to enter in such a way that the space inside from the excavation of the northeast corner to create the entrance, to the two fissures, like patios, on the east façade, is quite taut.

And once the openings through which light penetrates and crosses the architectural instrument have been pierced, the architects looks for and finds the mechanisms with which this light makes the interior spaces of this box play like a musical instrument. And when the light pours in, the box is converted into a “boîte à miracles”, as proposed by Le Corbusier.

FINE-TUNING MECHANISMS

Here the architect carried out exercises of proportion and disproportion, combining compressed horizontal spaces with double-height vertical spaces conveniently crossed by light, to produce effective diagonal spatial effects.

SERVANTS, SERVED

The canonical floor-plan is impeccable. The band of servant elements to one side at the back leaves the more ample served spaces to the other side, opening onto the garden via the openings in the box, the patios. The house is so well proportioned that although small, it appears large.

PREFACES

This is the third house after those in Pedrogao and Liteiros that Paulo H. Durao has built. And while the previous two are splendid, this is perhaps the most radical: a mature, masterly work, which puts the quality of the architect to the test and summarizes so well the ideas of its author on architecture. A house that achieves its desired aim of making time stand still.

TIME

The architect, Paulo H. Durao, is about to present his doctoral thesis on Time in Architecture at the UPM in Madrid, where he spent many years as professor in the Architectural Projects Department. And this house can be seen as a logical consequence of his doctoral thesis. As the materialization of many of the themes he analyzes around Time in artistic creation.

Once again we are faced here with Architecture that springs from truth and is developed with truth, and at whose hand beauty is achieved, as Plato proposed: Beauty as the splendor of Truth, the dream of every creator. Radical beauty in this radical house built in Moreira by Paulo H. Durao.

Alberto Campo Baeza

Clients: Married couple with two children, one boy and one girl.

Site: Moreira, Maia, Portugal – 486 m² of schist and sands type soil, long and thin, in a developing suburb area, surrounded by old and new constructions, mainly housing with different scales, there is some agriculture presence.

Floor areas
First floor (Gross area): 132,50 m². Ground floor (Gross area): 139,00 m². Underground floor (Gross area): 87,00 m².

Main bedroom with wc: 32,00 m². Boy bedroom with wc: 20,50 m². Girl bedroom with wc: 23,50 m². Play area: 8,00 m².

Kitchen: 27,00 m². Living room: 40,00 m². Office with wc: 16,6 m².
Service wc and Laundering room: 8,00 m². Garage and Storage: 42 m².
Total circulation: 43,00 m². Garden: 286,50 m².
Exterior Patios: 37,50 m². Total area: 358,50 m².

Car parking: 2 places underground, 3 places in the street.

Structure in situ poured Concrete solid “box”, insulation between the concrete structure and the interior brick wall, resulting in a 40cm exterior wall.

Finishes
Externally, the concrete is apparent with a varnish finishing, stainless steel protections, and natural aluminum windows. Internally, white-painted pladur, with natural wood on the doors and baseboards. First floor with natural wood on the ground, except in the water areas which are marble, as is the whole ground floor. Staircase has marble between the underground and ground floor and natural wood to de first floor, sustained by 1 cm tick solid steel rods painted in white, as all the steel in the interior.

Mechanical: Solar powered, heated floor.

2007 – 2011

Authors – Phyd Arquitectura
Paulo Henrique Durão João Ricardo Dias Daniel Gil Tomé
Collaboration Jennifer Duarte Miguel Àguas

Structure
Eng. Pedro Fragoso Viegas

Photography
Javier Callejas

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