House in Ílhavo by M2 Senos
House in Ílhavo is a modern two-story residence located in Portugal, designed in 2021 by M2 Senos.
Description
All around you can still feel the old farm fields, but this is still a very urban house.
The owners inherited the land from their grandparents and decided to build this house on it. A ground floor (or predominantly ground floor) house that accomplishes the family?s desires.
The parcel, with little depth, extends slowly along the street, almost disappearing around the curve.
The exercise was to accommodate the demanding deployment area, avoiding the proximity of the street and the neighbors. This imposed presence is not always easy to manage, without giving up the outdoor spaces.
And so, the house leans against the neighboring gable to the west and develops to the east side, with a regular shape, occupying the land within the legal maximum. The regular shape of the house dematerializes following the closing of the land, progressively retreating over the street, to the annexed volume (almost an endpoint), which gives it a dynamism, accentuated by the option of two floors in the central area. To counterbalance the proximity to the street and neighbors, all the interior spaces move away from the façade, in order to create more intimate, protected ?patios?, which translate into an ambiguous relationship in the exterior-interior dichotomy, reinforced by the existence of the shutters. In this way, sectioned ecosystems are created that era...
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