terrace

/  by Thomas DeVoss

acidadebranca: #ARCHITECTURE #SECTION #ELEVATION Casa Tolo-Alvaro Leite SizaLocation: Lugar das Carvalhinhas – Alvite, freguesia de Cerva, ProtugalSite Area: 1000 sqmConstructed Area: 180 sqmContractor: Óscar GouveiaLandscape: Alvaro Leite Siza Vie…

acidadebranca:

#ARCHITECTURE #SECTION #ELEVATION

Casa Tolo-Alvaro Leite Siza
Location: Lugar das Carvalhinhas – Alvite, freguesia de Cerva, Protugal
Site Area: 1000 sqm
Constructed Area: 180 sqm
Contractor: Óscar Gouveia
Landscape: Alvaro Leite Siza Vieira
Main Materials: Concrete
Project Start: 2000
Project Complete: 2005
(ArchDaily 2008-2011)

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http://hsiniliusasha.blogspot.pt/2011/03/dab310-studio2-project1-partab-hsin-i.html

A CIDADE BRANCA BOOKSTORE

/  by Thomas DeVoss

“Wright’s design of 1923 responded to the expansive qualities of the Doheny site, respected local vegetation, and accommodated the automobile in both spatial and architectural terms. It was nothing less than an idealized prototype for wh…

“Wright’s design of 1923 responded to the expansive qualities of the Doheny site, respected local vegetation, and accommodated the automobile in both spatial and architectural terms. It was nothing less than an idealized prototype for what American suburbs might have become, but did not. As surviving perspectives demonstrate, buildings, roadways, and plantings are conceived as an integrated totality; it is the vision of the suburb as one structure.

Roadways depicted as powerful visual elements appear to terrace the hills, providing a unifying pattern. Developed in the manner of viaducts, they bridge intermediate ravines on gracefully arcuated spans or massively embank the steep terrain. Walls defining these roadways extend to become walls of the houses themselves.

Numerous roof terraces broaden the horizontal planes of the connecting roads, amplifying an architectural image of vast scale. Both roads and houses are clustered in ways that structure the site by selectively shaping and retaining the natural slopes. The more fragile segments of valleys and the steepest slopes are left largely untouched, but are joined in the full composition to achieve an effect of extraordinary unity.”

-LOC