Casa Liteiros – Torres Novas House, Portugal

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Casa Liteiros, Portugal : Torres Novas House

Contemporary House in Liteiros design by Phyd Arquitectura

24 Nov 2011

Location: Torres Novas, Portugal

Design: Phyd Arquitectura

Casa Liteiros

English text:

A house that grew from its roots, that conquered its space between the land that feeds it, and the trunk proper to a tree.

A house that was a rooted tree, that could grow, gain body, expression and its own identity. We looked around and realized that between the presence of olive trees perfectly rooted in the history of that place and the morphology of the land itself there was already a space of living beings. Now, the challenge was to try to make it possible to inhabit human, in this interstitium between matter and the scratch of a tree.

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Among memories of a child who had awakened to the world near there, there was a faint image of the extraordinary village cardillium, a sign of the once Roman presence. But we couldn’t make a house around a courtyard, that anger, near there there was an Architect who could make a house around a courtyard.

We needed to make a wall, that would cut the influence of the northerly winds that blew icy, and allow us to generate a perennial inhabit, the plateaus have these things.

We wanted to overlap their experiences in the same plan, convert the living spaces, sleep, cook, work, in the same space of family sense, and at the same time so close and so distant.

We built a skeleton capable of harboring these different wills, and we did as many others had done before, we put some vertical planes capable of defining space, guiding it, giving it scale, we doubled those same planes in the horizontal direction to protect ourselves. We tried to figure out if anyone there could live there.

Contemporary life is not commendable by the existence of history stories. We dreamed a house for blimunda seven moons and for baltazar seven suns.

SONHÁMOS UMA CASA

House in Liteiros

Portuguese text:

Uma casa que crescesse das suas raízes, que conquistasse o seu espaço entre o terreno que a alimenta, e o tronco próprio de uma árvore.

Uma casa que fosse uma árvore enraizada, que pudesse crescer, ganhar corpo, expressão e a sua própria identidade. Olhámos em volta e percebemos que entre a presença de oliveiras perfeitamente enraizadas na história daquele lugar e a morfologia do próprio terreno existia já um espaço próprio de seres vivos. Agora, o desafio era tentar tornar possível o habitar humano, neste interstício entre matéria e o raízoma de uma árvore.

Por entre memórias de uma criança que havia despertado para o mundo perto de ali, existia uma imagem ténue da extraordinária vila cardillium, sinal da outrora presença Romana. Mas nós não podíamos fazer uma casa em torno de um pátio, que raiva, perto de ali houvera um Arquitecto que pudera fazer uma casa em torno de um pátio.

Necessitávamos de fazer um muro, que cortasse a influência dos ventos de norte que sopravam gélidos, e permitisse gerar um habitar perene, os planaltos têm destas coisas.

Queríamos sobrepor as suas vivências num mesmo plano, converter o habitar dos espaços de estar, dormir, cozinhar, trabalhar, num mesmo espaço de sentido familiar, e ao mesmo tempo tão próximos e tão distantes.

Construímos um esqueleto capaz de albergar estas distintas vontades, e fizemos como muitos outros tinham feito anteriormente, colocámos uns planos verticais capazes de definir o espaço, de o orientar, de conferir-lhe escala, dobrámos esses mesmos planos no sentido horizontal para nos protegermos. Tentámos perceber se alguém lá poderia viver.

A vida contemporânea não se compadece com a existência de histórias da história. Sonhámos uma casa para a Blimunda sete luas e para o Baltazar sete sóis.

PAULO HENRIQUE DURÃO

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Casa em Liteiros – Building Information

DESIGNATION
Casa em Liteiros / House in Liteiros

LOCATION
Liteiros, Torres Novas, Portugal

AUTHOR
Paulo Henrique Durão, Architect

COLLABORATION
Alexandre Calado, Architect
Daniel Gil Tomé, Architect
Jennifer Duarte, Architect
José António Martins, Architect

SPECIALTY PROJECTS
Stability – Pedro Manuel Fragoso Viegas, Engineer
Specialties – Rui Regnaud, Engineer

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