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House at Sobral da Lagoa by Bak Gordon
Photographer Leonardo Finotti has sent us his set of photographs documenting a recent residential project by Portuguese architect Bak Gordon.
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Located at Sobral da Lagoa in Óbidos near the west coast of Portugal, the house occupies a plot between two existing houses.
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Windows in the white facade are glazed in different colours.
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A swimming pool on the roof of the garage overlooks fields behind the site.
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The following text is from Bak Gordon:
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House in Sobral da Lagoa
Portugal 2008
In a rural, vernacular village near the west coast, a white volume fills-in the void left between two houses.
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The house has two faces: one facing the access and another facing the fields. In both cases, it's the character of the coloured window openings that animates their composition.
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The roof extends the house perimeter to the depth of the adjacent houses and plots.
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Facing the fields, the pool sets the line of the horizon while giving a roof to the storage and garage underneath.
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