House designed to reduce its visual impact on the surroundings in Paço de Arcos, Lisbon, Portugal

June 28, 2011 Category: House, Residential

The House designed to reduce its visual impact on the surroundings designed by Jorge Mealha Arquitectos Lda is located in Paço de Arcos, Lisbon, Portugal . This arrangement of different solids and voids, uses large plain surfaces and some in-between tensioned spaces to let light draw or reflect on the objects, emphasising geometry and proposing a changeable reading of form and space during the day.

Light is used as a main tool to draw this house. Interior space is always changing during the day – or even at night when full moon spreads silver light throughout – using either direct light or reflected light to create changeable graphic or tonal effects all trough walls and pavements. Externally, a precise positioning enhances the relation between the several solids, playing with its voids in between or accentuated balances.

House designed to reduce its visual impact on the surroundings design by Jorge Mealha Arquitectos Lda