Filipe Saraiva Arquitectos Designs New Pentagon-Shaped Home in Portugal
The Portuguese architecture firm Filipe Saraiva Arquitectos has created a stunning new residential property in Ourém, Portugal, the place where the studio itself is based. The house has recently been making waves on social media thanks to its powerful form and some flattering architectural photography. Located on an arid plain of farmland in Melroeira (close to the Portuguese capital Lisbon), this family home takes its cues from agricultural architecture like barns and stables, with an added injection of contemporary class that sets it apart from the utilitarian buildings it harkens back to.
The house has a simple shape and bears a resemblance to an extruded gable wall ? at once perfectly symmetrical and impossibly minimal. The singular structure is long and capped by a deep pitched roof. Clad in black precast concrete panels to help it blend into the surrounding landscape (especially at night), the volume is extended at its front with a series of wooden polygonal frames, which take the same shape as the house but are spaced apart to allow more light into the area they enclose. This same area serves as an outdoor patio for the home, affording its residents some beautiful views out from the sloping hill on which the construction sits. Luckily, a huge wall of glass separates the outside and inside spaces, so even from the interior, these expansive views can still be appreciated. From certain angles, this front part of the house has an almost spiritual quality to it, like t...
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