geometric residential avant-garde from {tag:pracownie}
Wave is a Portuguese studio based in Porto that describes itself as a "naive architectural practice." In addition to its clear and uncompromising search for its own style, fala is distinguished by the poetic naming given to its projects. In "house with countless windows," they uses Bauhaus-like shapes to create a mathematically fundamentalist space.
Looking at the façade of a house with countless windows, one cannot predict how many floors it has
Giulietta Margot | © fala
(Text compiled from the author's description of wave Atelier)
A three-story house acting like a seven-story building
The house has more windows and floors than other buildings in similar circumstances. Looking at the house from the outside, it appears both much larger and much smaller than we expect. A rigid rhythm of small window openings punctuates the orderly interiors of the living spaces, which unfold to the right and left from the staircase. The split-floor system hides between the thicknesses of panels that disappear between the windows.
Each wall inside is opaque; sequences of transverse glass bricks occurring on successive floors separate the spaces, leaving a hazy view from one into the other. On the top floor, the rooms are under a vaulted ceiling - the only exception in this austere system.
Translucent walls inside the house make up many of the countless windows
Francisco Ascensão | © fala
each element repeats itself like a mantra
The grid of the facade, the structure of the architectural plan and the overall system of the space remain dependent on each other, like parameters in a machine. Every element used is universal and repeated ad infinitum, whether it is a wall, door, window or railing. The sizes of the various materials (glass brick: 20 × 20 cm, marble tiles: 30 × 30 cm, etc.) establish a fanatical system of rules, as a result of which successive rooms appear identical, and transitions and relations between them are unified.
The geometric sequences carried out in the space are visible even in the details
Francisco Ascensão | © fala
Every decision about this space: practical, ethical or aesthetic, or even residential, results from and contributes to this abstract but very tangible reality.
The result is a matter composed of uncompromising logic
Home is theory in practice. Its homeliness is not easy to grasp and forces the occupants to find it and even force it in the midst of a design that follows a set of predetermined rules. The project is closer to being a mathematical equation in physical form than a house.
A geometric extravaganza in the backyard of a house with countless windows
Francisco Ascensão | © fala
