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Apr 4, 2011

A Checkerboard Home For the Elderly

Designed by the architecture firm Aires Mateus in Alcácer do Sal, Portugal, this has got to be one of the coolest looking places you could ever hope your grandparents would live.

The project is based on a attentive reading of the life of a very specific kind of community, a sort of a micro-society with its own rules. It is a program, somewhere in between a hotel and a hospital, that seeks to comprehend and reinterpret the combination social/private, answering to the needs of a social life, and at the same time of solitude. Independents unities aggregate into a unique body, whose design is expressive and clear. The reduct mobility of those who will live in the building suggests that any displacement should be an emotive and variable experience. The distance between the independent units is measured and drawn to turn the idea of path into life, and its time into form.

16 comments:

cool_cicler said...

Beautiful city dude, near Setúbal. Incredible that portuguese arquitecture has become so good recently. Last winner of the Pritzker prize was a portuguese too. Nice post dude.

Jay said...

cool building!

Magz Killgore said...

I would live there for sure.

ed said...

would love to live there

Matt Neumann said...

Wow very cool building!! I wouldnt mind livin there:p

Matt said...

That's an awesome picture! I can't believe that's real!

Dazza said...

looks wicked I wanna live there too

Adam said...

Oh cool!

Unknown said...

Neat. It'd be interesting to live there.

J. Antonio said...

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seTHCox said...

Lol it's look kinda crazy but still nice;d

Peanutzzz said...

Looks pretty cool

Zombie said...

Thats pretty dang cool!

Guy Movie Blogger said...

Wow, that almost makes me want to be an architect. Looks sort of Picasso-ish..

taio said...

interesant

john178 said...

wow, I wouldn't mind living there now...