Gently curving walls and ceilings informed by the fabric of a tent frame the interior of this house in Porto, completed by local studio Fala Atelier.
Named A House Within a Few Lines, the building replaces an existing dwelling on the 3.5-metre-wide plot with a small one-bedroom home.
Within this limited space, and with a limited budget, Fala Atelier drew on the work of the American minimalist artist Robert Mangold, framing the home's interior with a series of deliberately simple and colourful gestures.
Fala Atelier has completed A House Within a Few Lines
"The 'frame' imposed by the site was very clear, with several alignments and anchor points," the studio told Dezeen.
"We looked at Robert Mangold a lot for the design ? the whole concept of taking a few lines in tension with the frame came from him, and in the end, those lines become surfaces," it added. Instead of creating an extra storey on the site, Fala Atelier looked to maximise the feeling of space in the small home by using the additional height to create distinctive curving ceilings, intended to emulate the fabric of a tent.
Curving walls and ceilings are informed by the fabric of a tent
Facing the street with an "unassuming" facade, A House Within a Few Lines's entrance leads directly into the bedroom beneath a barrel-vaulted ceiling.
Two doors on either side of a marble column lead into a bathroom and a large living space, the wall of which curves gently inwards as it leads towards t...