The Environment

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Architects: colectivoMEL

Location: Guiné-Bissáu

Construction: Barrote

Authors : Hugo Dourado, Ana Baptista

Area: 200.0 m2

Year Of Project: 2016

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Employer: Fé e Cooperação (NGO)

Funded By: Instituto Camões, União Europeia

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The Environment We thought of this project watching the environment, the sun, the marks of the rain, the wind and the children. In Guiné-Bissau our concepts are abstract.
There the architecture is made up of two parts, inner space and outer space with transitional space codes.
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The interior is intimate shelter!
It’s a place for protection, dark, windowless and small. It's mass and matter.
The exterior is the stage of all happenings! Outside bodies are washed, hair is cut food is prepared and eaten, one remains expectant watching the action that unfolds in exterior of the houses, people play, talk, grow up, marry.

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These two spaces, indoor and outdoor are limited by the coverage that is the maximum expression of vernacular architecture.The cover protects the interior from rain, the exterior of the heat and marks building in Nature.

Floor Plan
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