Clube Soltróia, plot 82, Tróia, Portugal
Jorge Mealha
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
For the surrounding ground, a set of virtually blank solids perform a dialectically tensioned play, searching, through scale and accentuation on the surfaces edges outlines, the emphasis on the light/shadow interplay, proposing an ever changing reading throughout the day.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
The outline and voiding of the mass proposes an articulation of solids and wall surrounded patios, succeeding each other in the organization of a rhythmic sequence of a fluid program. The openings either of limited dimensions or placed in the interstitial spaces, in between the various solids, allow, in a quite controlled way, the fruition of chosen frames.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
The scale, the openings and the skylights, become instruments for light capture and redirection, either diffused or of a direct nature, drawing and sprinkling with light the interior planes throughout the daylight cycle.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
Within the inner perimeter, a sequence of horizontal and vertical interplays between the various solids, voids and outlines, create the spatial identity structure of the house.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
With plastered blank shutters, in the same finishing as the coating of the outside walls, when shut, lead to virtually blank solids, in the pursuit of a clear reading of the format.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
Some ambiguities in the reading and definition of the containing and the contained elements inter-relations play with the observer’s capacity and interest in the decoding of space and shape design.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| ground floor plan--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| first floor plan--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| roof plan--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| east elevation--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| west elevation--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| north elevation--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| south elevation--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| section 01--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| section 02--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| section 03--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| section 04--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| section 05--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| section 06--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| section 07--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
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| section 08--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Mealha |
The people
Architects: Jorge Mealha
Location: Clube Soltróia, plot 82, Tróia, Portugal
Project Team: Arch. João Sítima, Arch. Luís Banazol, Arch. Pedro Pereira, Arch. Marcelo Dantas
Client: Private
Project area: 207 sqm
Photographs: Jorge Mealha
via:archdaily
