*바다를 바라보다, 스톤 하우스 [ António Fernandez Architects ] Afife Houses

대지에 자리한 건축의 아이텐티는 무엇으로 정의 되는가? 순수하게 받아들인 주변 자연환경으로 정의 할 것인가? 아니면 인간의 질 높은 거주환경 구현을 위해 구축된 인공적인 공간에서 이야기 할 수 있을까? 여기 바다가 한눈에 내려다 보이는 경사지에 위치한 주거 프로젝트는 이러한 의문점을 건축의 일목요연한 어휘속에서 슬기롭게 해결한다. 지면으로 부터 확장된 건축은 대지의 경사면을 따라 순차적으로 레벨링하며 백그라운에 자리한 석산의 지오메트릭 폼을 건축공간에 투영한다. 바다로 향한 남측으로는 다양한 야외활동을 보장하는 테라스를, 그리고 이에 면한 리빙스페이스로는 테라스에서 필터링된 풍부한 자연광을 유입시킨다. 이와같이 지면으로 부터 자연스럽게 형성된 3개의 공간은 거주자의 편안하며 쾌적한 거주환경을 확보하는 동시에 아이텐티한 형상으로 또다른 자연의 부산물, 스톤 하우스를 완성한다.

reviewed by SJ,오사

From afar the terrain seems inhospitable. A rather steep and rocky massif with crude and rough undergrowth appears, surrounded by buildings and lush grounds. To the west, the landscape dazzles…a vast plain dotted with homes and intersected by the railway line extends to the sea.

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Architects: António Fernandez Architects
Location: Afife, Portugal
Project Team: António Fernandez, Ema Rosmaninho
Client: Construções Adelino Figueiredo, Lda.
Project Area: 1,448 sqm
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: FG+SG – Architectural Photography

The plan would call for four single-family detached houses with the project adding the ingredients associated with the site, leading to the sprouting of the idea. Thus, the rocky terrain with the ledge deserved something similar…more rocks should be added: habitable stones suspended on the wall that delimits the terrain.

What was initially a difficult challenge turned into the most enriching focal point of the project. The buildings sprout up from the ground and peek over the landscape extending far beyond the boundaries of each lot, spreading out over the terrain and surroundings in an astute manner.

The dwellings were thus designed on the principle of adapting the buildings to the terrain and taking the greatest advantage possible of natural lighting or the landscape. In terms of the project, it was decided to open the buildings’ living areas mainly towards the south and southeast, so that each living space responds effectively to its own needs, taking full advantage of the constraints imposed by the terrain, and obtaining greater privacy for each lot.

The project focused on designing three houses whose interior divisions are practically repeated, topped by three crystal cubes that turn towards the sea and which serve as a solarium.

Outside, the lot’s remaining land surrounds and embraces the rock, partially buried, which rolled over the ground and came to a stop at that precise location. In turn, home number four sprouts from the soil, emerging through levels that communicate with the terrain and in harmony with the other three houses and halting at street-level. This home opens onto the terrain that falls steeply towards its eastern limit, peacefully coexisting with the old granite aqueduct that winds its way between fields, and thus, without bias, opens outwards appropriating the landscape.

Whoever passes along the road faces four cut stones suspended in time and enjoying the scenery that is rhythmically interrupted by the rhythmic movement of another passing train. In the background the sea interferes with the sky and night falls…and then the unexpected happens…sparkling inlaid crystals in four large stones shine and glisten in the night which begins anew.

from  archdaily