three Cusps Chalet by Tiago do Vale Architects, photo: João Morgado
three Cusps Chalet is a compact residence renovation in the historical city center of Braga in Portugal in what was as soon as the spartan kitchen, laundry, larders and personnel quarters of a tiny palace constructed by wealthy Brazilian emigrants in the 2nd half of the 19th century.
3 Cusps Chalet by Tiago do Vale Architects, photo: João Morgado
“Built in accordance to the devised model of an alpine chalet, so popular in 19th century Brazil (with narrow proportions, tall windows, pitched roofs and decorated eaves), the ‘3 Cusps Chalet’ was that a single certain creating.” says the architects Tiago do Vale. “Due to the confluence of such particular scenarios it is actually most likely the only instance of a typical, spartan, 19th century constructing of Brazilian ancestry in Portugal.”
3 Cusps Chalet by Tiago do Vale Architects, photograph: João Morgado
“The method asked for the cohabitation of a operate studio and a residence program. Offered the lowered area of the developing, the original strategy of hierarchizing spaces by floor was followed. The degree of privacy grows as a single climbs the staircase. The stairs also get narrower with every single flight of methods, informing the altering nature of the spaces it connects.”
three Cusps Chalet by Tiago do Vale Architects, photograph: João Morgado
“A willingness to make confident the utmost transparency all through the producing, permitting light to cross it from front to front and from leading to bottom, defined all of the organizational and partitioning techniques resulting in a solution related to a vertical loft.”
3 Cusps Chalet by Tiago do Vale Architects, photograph: João Morgado
“The design and fashion group took advantage of a one,five m height distinction between the street and the block’s interior plaza to place the functioning area on the ground degree, turning it westward and relating it to the street. Meanwhile, the domestic system relates with the interior plaza and the morning light by means of a platform that solves the transition in amongst kitchen and exterior. This enables for each spaces to instantly assert very various personalities and light, even even however they are separated by just two flights of stairs.”
three Cusps Chalet by Tiago do Vale Architects, photograph: João Morgado
“The staircase geometry, previously closed in three of its sides, effectively filters the visual relations in between every applications even though nonetheless permitting for natural light to seep down from the upper ranges and illuminate the operating studio.”
3 Cusps Chalet by Tiago do Vale Architects, photograph: João Morgado
“The second floor was stored for the social strategy of the house. Refusing the all-normal tendency for compartmentalizing, the staircase was allowed to define the perimeters of the kitchen and living space, creating an open floor with normal light all day long. Light enters from the kitchen in the morning, from the staircase’s skylight and from the residing area in the afternoon.”
3 Cusps Chalet by Tiago do Vale Architects, photograph: João Morgado
“If the visual theme of the home is the white colour, methodically repeated on walls, ceilings, carpentry and marble, the clothing room is the shock at the major of the path towards the private places of the home. Every the floor and roof structure seem in their natural colors surrounded by closet doors constructed in the really identical material. It reads as a minor wooden box, a counterpoint to the home’s white box and being itself counterpointed by the marble box of the bathroom.”
TECHNICAL SHEET
ARCHITECTURE: Tiago do Vale Architects, Portugal
Area: Sé, Braga, Portugal
Building: Constantino & Costa
Venture Year: 2012
Construction 12 months: 2013
Web website Region: 60 m2
Development Region: 165 m2
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