2G n°64 RICARDO BAK GORDON ARCHITECT / OUR CHOICE - THE 2 HOUSES IN QUEIMADA -TAVIRA / PORTUGAL/

To celebrate the special 2G edition n°64 with the portuguese architect Ricardo BAK GORDON, here one of his first projects that we love a lot, the 2 houses in Queimada-Tavira in algarve, the south region of Portugal. This twins houses were made in 2006/2007 for a portuguese artist.

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Architect: Ricardo Bak Gordon

Collaborators: Luis Pedro Pinto & Nuno Costa

Structural Engineering :TRIAGONAL engenheiros consultores
Hydraulic Installations : Ana Cristina Freitas
Electrical Installations and Telecommunications : AT António Trindade serviços de engenharia
Water and Sewerage : GOP, Lda Raquel Fernandes

THE ARCHITECT WORDS

"In a strongly territory marked by natural landscape with valleys and hilltops, characteristic of the hills of the Algarve region in the leeward, these two houses are built against nature. White Volumes  with two floors and terraces, divided between community spaces at the ground floor and bedrooms (guaranteeing greater intimacy as if it were a monastic cells, each with its terrace, open on the infinite landscape) on the 1st floor. Inside, the ceilings are in concrete and cement screed floors, creating a color reference level and the horizontal planes spaced apart by walls plastered and painted white. The transition between the austere geometry of the house and the waving organic landscape gives up on cement platforms, the outside area"   Bak Gordon, for HabitarPortugal

Architecture © Bak Gordon Arquitectos / Photography © Leonardo Finotti