Marvila

Perhaps for this reason, these houses reflect a desire to enhance gatherings and to go beyond the determinism of functions – seeking an imagined joy.    The street façade remains unchanged, offering clues about the intervention. The rear façade, resulting from the extension, presents itself as new, not in opposition to the existing, but as an additional layer in the building’s history. A renewed connection with the garden is explored, as a prerogative to celebrate what at that time seemed vital to us: the sun, the earth, the water, leisure.    Inside the building, a universe of conventional materials is repeated and modified: structural wood panels protected with green oil, slightly bluish industrial pavement, painted steel sheet, wooden frames, Sintra limestone, and river pebbles.