Located in an impressive sloping site Paco de Arcos, a suburb of Lisbon overlooking the sea, the house offers a solid set of several trying to reduce the total mass due to large and complex program requested by the client. Other conditions that must be addressed and overcome all the rules were defined in the urban council of the city, including building lines, access, constructability index, and volume.
The resulting shape offers a dialogue between a range of different solids and voids, using light to draw on the surface, posing a reading space and changing the different volumes during the day. The metal shield, creating large areas of smooth texture on the front of the house, which accentuates the shapes and the control of the relationship between inside and outside or between external and internal spaces.
The house is completely white and the roofs are flat. Some traffic, such as the staircase and main hall are made of metal painted white, slightly separated from the walls, leaving opportunity for the light to pass through between.
