BETWEEN TWO WHITE WALLS TEASER

PROJECT

SEE BETWEEN TWO WHITE WALLS PROJECT

ARCHITECT /DESIGNER

Filipe Paixão

COLABORATORS

Architecture: Rui Martins Nicolò Martin
Constructor: Window to the Future

LOCATION

Vilamoura, Portugal

DATE

2017

DESCRIPTION

“Cobalt-blue sky – beneath, a slap of whitewash. Reverberation of sun and the bluest blue, the whitest white. Cubes, geometric lines, animal light that trembles and vibrates like the wings of a cicada.”
Raul Brandão. Os Pescadores

Empty plots of similar shapes and sizes are aligned along a golf course, setting a frame for new urbanization of detached houses. Nothing was built. Due to the degree of uncertainty regarding future constructions, the house becomes introverted.
Two white walls (almost) completely withdraw any direct contact from future neighbors, setting clear boundaries. Between them, an architectural inner landscape of cubic shapes, each arranging a single function, provides a sense of security and protection while carefully framing the distant landscape. Only a horizontal volume, containing the swimming pool, contradicts this logic projecting itself to the South, emerging from the walls to offer a possibility of volunteered exposure, for a brief moment, before returning to the house.