Irregularly positioned sq. openings puncture the thick concrete exterior of SV Home in Portugal, just lately accomplished by structure studio Spaceworkers.

Positioned on a sloping website close to the city of Sobrado, the blocky, three-storey residence occupies a plot as soon as occupied by the house of the consumer’s grandfather.

It’s fashioned from board-marked concrete, designed by Spaceworkers to “stand out” but additionally current a “quiet silence” to the road, whereas the sq. openings are positioned to border outward views whereas sustaining privateness.

“Openings for the totally different areas transcend the mere want for air flow and pure air flow,” defined Spaceworkers.

“From the skin, they’re an essential component within the composition of the elevations and within the notion of the occupation of the home, however with out revealing an excessive amount of,” the studio mentioned.

“Internally, these openings give attention to framing items of the distant panorama, and even the sky, avoiding the environment punctuated by homes.”

Because of the sloping website, the doorway to SV Home sits off the road at first-floor stage, with a ramped driveway resulting in a storage on the bottom ground.

Whereas solely two openings overlook the road, to the south of the house are sliding doorways that join a double-height dwelling space to a personal backyard.

A central, skylit staircase leads as much as the second ground, the place the bedrooms get pleasure from expansive views of the panorama by the sq. home windows.

“Every area has a essential take a look at a selected level within the panorama, permitting customers totally different views of the identical panorama relying on the place and measurement of the window they’re ,” defined Spaceworkers.

Contrasting the sheer concrete exterior, the interiors of SV Home are completed with pale wooden and white partitions, with minimal window frames that emphasise the deep reveals.

“On the skin, using uncovered concrete emphasises the concept of solidity that we wished to specific in distinction to the sunshine wooden and white partitions of the inside that categorical lightness,” defined the studio.

“It’s also on this dichotomy that the home pertains to its neighbours and with those that inhabit it and stroll by its areas.”

Portuguese structure studio Spaceworkers was established by Rui Dinis, Henrique Marques and Carla Duarte in 2007.

Earlier initiatives by the studio embrace the Romanesque structure interpretation centre in Lousada, which was additionally designed with blocky concrete kinds, and a home with a concrete roof and concave sides.

The pictures is by Fernando Guerra.