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.
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.
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.
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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.
cool building!
I would live there for sure.
would love to live there
Wow very cool building!! I wouldnt mind livin there:p
That's an awesome picture! I can't believe that's real!
looks wicked I wanna live there too
Oh cool!
Neat. It'd be interesting to live there.
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Lol it's look kinda crazy but still nice;d
Looks pretty cool
Thats pretty dang cool!
Wow, that almost makes me want to be an architect. Looks sort of Picasso-ish..
interesant
wow, I wouldn't mind living there now...
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