H O U S E I N P A L M A R E S
beach card castle

Suspended in the air, lost in river side, the materiality of the house - Sand morphology mimetic movement...
In pale clean soft surfaces, the ceiling and the floor are the same, the house confuses us…
The surfaces are the same, the notion of the plan is mixed, camouflage experience.

Sand can module to the needs of the user.
When we walk in the sand, it models to our feet, we lay down the same, we sit, totally plastic-elastic. Sand doesn’t return to the same point, but at the same time, it still doesn’t stay at that point we left it.

Following the sand morphology, the panels in the façade, open a dialogue with the street: with different panels we have this feeling that if we could open them all, at the same time, the house would transform itself in a giant awning.

Half House / Half Beach, depended on the look, dependent on the weather. In this beach card castle the shadows and the power of transformation below the surface covers us, gives to the roof the impossibility to touch the wall.

This light line, line of thought, creates a void path around the house, Where the empty space above becomes a full aligned shadow below our feet.

When we open the door…Green flag. 

Location
Lagos, Portugal

Year
2014-2017

Team
Mónica Mendes Godinho, Diana Mira, Filipa Ferreira

Collaboration
GLO - Global Architecture Office

Landscaping
Hipólito Bettencourt

Photography
Francisco Nogueira

Text
Francisca Abrantes da Fonseca