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Quarteira, Portugal – Corpo Atelier
Project Year : 2015
Developed Area : 380.0 m2
Photographs : Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Surrounded by vibrant greenery, this all white structure is a stand out. Aptly called Five Terraces and a Garden, the architects designed this home by stacking five cantilevered terraces. Each terrace provides a different view of the outdoors.
The design of the house allows natural sunlight to come in while also ensuring proper ventilation. All these are achieved without compromising privacy.
The exterior of the house features clean, smooth lines punctuated by greens. The white outdoor palette continues inside the house, with walls so clean they look almost sterile.
From the Architect:
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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