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Boa Nova Tea House (1963) and Swimming Pool (1966) By Alvaro Siza,…
Boa Nova Tea House (1963) and Swimming Pool (1966) By Alvaro Siza
Intention Input :
Uses / Functional
Restaurant
Swimming Pool
Design Intents / Strategies
Create explosive connection with rocky profile, rectifying it towards the sea with a precise line
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Make the building part of the landscape
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Create a specific condition of setting & its history (60's Portugal)
Create a feeling of expanses
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Experience / Feelings
Blend easily with the natural
Blur for understanding the man-made limit
Stand up visually, clearly contact to the Portuguese building
Traditional, warm and harmony feeling
Appreciate the natural setting
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Solution Output
Materials
Form / Spaces
Interior divide into two part, form butterfly plan
Slopping roof with strong emphasis on the volume creating a dynamic feeling
To create better hidden potential with the landscape
Opening
Large windows on an exposed concrete space :
Bring natural light to the interior
Create strong relation between interior and exterior, confusing between building and natural
Low volumetric expressiveness
Avoid to collide with the proportions of the church
Low roofing transition into natural slope that above of natural rock
Swimming Pools
Apply in low concrete wall and natural rock formation
Blur people understanding of man-made limit
System of platforms and stairs along to entry shelter
Provide a welcoming feeling to the entrance of the building
Bring contrasts between the building and natural
Maze- like sequence of corridors
Play with the shadow by building material to the ocean meet with lighting.
Material Dream
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