Box is a contemporary house redesigned in 2021 by Tiago Filipe Soares Castro de Sousa, located in Paredes de Coura, Portugal.

Description
A rehabilitation project always represents the conflict between the memory of past experiences and the urges of contemporary living.
The existing volume has a singular configuration – rigid in shape and rudely built, similar to the typical Minho house.
It?s a building that intimately relates to the site where it is located, a kind of unsophisticated but charming rural ?plaza?.
In this context we propose a new and contemporary volume, with the intention to cause contradicting feelings to the observer. It explores the balance and tension between the existing and the proposed form. Its colour, materialization, shape and position, causes a purposeful distinction between the ?old and the new?. The purpose of this project is a single family house.
The program is developed in two levels – social spaces on the lower floor, two bedrooms and a bathroom on the upper floor.
On the lower floor, kitchen, dining and living room are organized from north to south in sequence. The ample space is organized both by a central enclosed storage volume (protecting the kitchen?s work area) and by the stairs that access the upper floor.
These stairs presents themselves as an ornamental element, with its fluid and curvilinear design. It is a sculptural piece in concrete and wood that separates the dining from the living space.
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