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Tendais House

Cinfães, Portugal

Year: 2002

Location: Cinfães, Portugal

Category: Architecture

Status: Built

Award: Silver Medal for Single House -

Architecture Biennial Miami Beach 2009

In this house, the connection between rooms is essential. The corridor that crosses the home is more than a passage, it is a moment of transition where natural light reveals distance, rhythm and time. This pause matters, because the inhabitant needs a quiet journey before reaching the living room and its expansive landscape view. Architecture becomes a sequence of sensations that prepares the mind and the body.

He needs shade to appreciate light. He needs reclusion to appreciate openness. This project embraces those contrasts, using them to shape a deeper relationship with the place. It is an architecture that guides, frames and reveals, allowing the inhabitant to truly experience the landscape, not just see it.

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