House with a Curved Wall

On an extremely low budget, the decrepit house was reduced to its perimeter walls. A gently curved wall under a new light roof separates public from private, and its intersection with the old walls and sloping ceiling creates a complex form. Rooms of various sizes sit behind it, and a wide window frames the rediscovered garden.

The main room holds four blue doors, a circular opening, plants and a slender metal pole marking the highest point. The Portuguese design team extended the street wall to balance its proportions and painted the door salmon pink, completed by a blue-green gate.