House without Idea

A small house refuses to be banal. Its three levels play slightly different geometric games, assembled from small gestures: sloping ceilings, curved and staggered walls, occasional double heights and tall chimneys. The ground floor holds the main living space open to the garden, the middle level centres on a hallway, and a spiral stair leads to the attic.

Colour and paint bring the levels together. White and dark blue stripes cover shutters, kitchens and cabinets with oversized handles, a dotted wooden floor repeats on every level, and each door carries a dark green painted circle.

The Portuguese design team made the two façades contradict each other: the street side is an ordered grid of windows with a rich marble cornice, the garden side light, absurd and playful in glass.