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"In einer Gegend, die vom Weinbau geprägt ist, und einer Landschaft, in der Schieferböden keine Seltenheit sind, erscheint ein terrassiertes Wohnhaus mit Schiefermauern nicht ungewöhnlich. Das RPFV House in der nordportugie..."
a r c h d a i l y B r a z i l
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2018 - 12 - 29
"Com mais de quatro mil projetos publicados em 2018, nossos editores fecham este ano estimulante para a arquitetura com uma seleção dos melhores projetos de uma tipologia cara a todos nós: casas. De paisagens remota..."
a e c c a f é
p u b l i c a t i o n | R P F V h o u s e
2019 - 01 - 10
"The proposal was made for a plot of land with 1697 m², where 112 m² were covered area that corresponded to a demolished two-floor house and attic that had a total floor area of around 300 m². Out of the 1697 m² of land on..."
b a u n e t z_ w i s s e n_
p u b l i c a t i o n | R P F V h o u s e
2019 - 01 - 08
"In einer Gegend, die vom Weinbau geprägt ist, und einer Landschaft, in der Schieferböden keine Seltenheit sind, erscheint ein terrassiertes Wohnhaus mit Schiefermauern nicht ungewöhnlich. Das RPFV House in der nordportugie..."
a r c h d a i l y B r a z i l
p u b l i c a t i o n | R P F V h o u s e
2018 - 12 - 29
"Com mais de quatro mil projetos publicados em 2018, nossos editores fecham este ano estimulante para a arquitetura com uma seleção dos melhores projetos de uma tipologia cara a todos nós: casas. De paisagens remota..."
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SWIMMING POOL
Santo Tirso, Porto, Portugal
2014
author NOARQ - José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira program private swimming pool collaborators Hugo Araújo contractors Cardoso do Monte, Sociedade de Empreitadas SA com António Ramalho, Sociedade de Construções Desportivas SA photography Arménio Teixeira
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“(…) All of this, doesn't happen in the sea, nor in the sun," the swimmer Palomar thinks, "but inside my head (…) I am swimming in my mind (…). His strokes have become weary and hesitant. In the disintegrating world, the thing he would like to save is the most fragile: that sea-bridge between his eyes and the sinking sun (…)”
I. Calvino, Palomar
The reflection of light on water! How is a cliché designed?
The water is more important than the recipient. Swimming is more important than the desire to have a swimming pool. The pool doesn’t exist without the sun, and the water without light, will never stop being the reflection of the lawn’s shadow. I retain: swimming; water; sun.
I suggested, first of all, setting apart the pool from the house – to allow it to establish its own space in relation with the tree, the wall, the line of the slumps. We avoided the stone edges.
We wanted a puddle of water in the grass. We wanted the sky’s reflex in the lawn’s floor, interrupted by a rock.
We almost designed a puddle and a rock. The almost is the empty line that preserves the contact between the water and the lawn. The rock is granite. This place is made of granite.
In here, the water has geometry – it’s not possible to imitate chance. A rectangle of water and a rectangle of stone make a square.