Text description provided by the architects. The great challenge behind Casa MF was to adapt to the client?s wishes, whose main premise was that the house should be built in an “L” shape. Developing an original identity and finding an answer to this request, was the main inspiration for the approach adopted in an almost imperceptible way. Then the distribution of spaces, with clarity and rationality, without the morphological obviousness hidden in the tenuous movement of the elements that accompanies the two streets that flank the volumetry. The main fac?ades of this irregular monolith are made of exposed concrete with wooden formwork, composed by a succession of opaque, crude, and hermetic volumes that close the house to the public exterior. For the interior of the lot, the volume is torn in order to enjoy the light and the garden, ensuring privacy facing the street. photography by © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
The program of the house is distributed over a series of consecutive volumes, as in a game of embedded pieces, almost playful. Each of the volumes presents different functions, heights, and depths creating a unique spatial dynamic, and emphasizing a new reading of an ?L? shaped house. New visual relationships are created between the full and the empty, between the private, semi-private areas, and the view of the central garden space where the pool is also located. The project for a couple with two children is an ode to the resident’s privacy. From th...