040 Pura
Family Villa
Location
Confidential
Date
May 2017
Client
Confidential
Program
Residential 500 m²
Status
Concept Design
Team
Ricardo Guedes
The challenge to design a family villa on a plain natural environment, instintevely aimes for a stand-alone object, that blends with the setting, but can breathe on it´s own. Taking Andrea Palladio´s Villa Rotonda as scale and spatial reference, Villa Pura´s design starts at the 1st floor, and becomes a geometric dialogue between pure forms…
With the idea that the private areas should preserve intimacy and individuality, the translation of Rotonda´s layout in to a 4 cell floor plan becomes identical. In between the private rooms, 4 social communal areas left, in relation with the circular void, establishing visual and physical relations with the ground-floor…
The central void provides light and visual relations between floors and programs. The ground-floor is divided in to 4 identical areas, each performing seperately, but part of the same environment…
The ground-floor is divided in to 4 identical areas. Living, dining, and kitchen areas performe seperately, but are connected by the inner patio, and part of the same environment…
The 3 levels have each their identity. From layout to materiality, each reflect the program and relation with the context. The basement garage monolithical, the social floor is open to the outside, and the private floor works as a whole…
The 3 levels have each their identity. From layout to materiality, each reflect the program and relation with the context. The basement garage monolithical, the social floor is open to the outside, and the private floor works as a whole…
The circualtion area of the 1st floor becomes a setting for informal communal areas. A library establishes the separation between these social areas, and the private ensuites, amplifying the sense of privacy and secrecy…
Despite the clear geometric layout, the villa can be perceived in a dynamic way, from the outside. A reinforcement of the 4th dimension through the rotation of the juxtaposed pure shapes…
