Portuguese studio Spaceworkers has accomplished a geometrical backyard pavilion close to Porto, that includes an overhanging roof and monolithic partitions of concrete and inexperienced ceramic tiles.
Pavilion within the Backyard is a multipurpose occasion area that sits on a former car parking zone within the inexperienced outskirts of the Portuguese village of Sobrado.
Seeking to seize the “essence” of this place, Spaceworkers created a glazed, column-free inside supposed to really feel like an extension of the encircling panorama.
“The seek for essence could be understood because the try to grasp and specific the true nature of one thing, on this case, the connection between man, nature and structure,” Marques instructed Dezeen.
Pavilion within the Backyard is shaped of two offset concrete blocks containing customer services and providers. These assist a big gridded cover punctured by sq. skylights, which sits over a central occasions area.
Full-height, sliding glass doorways wrap the occasions area, whereas the cover and stone ground prolong outwards to create a sheltered terrace round its edges.
“We have been capable of have a notion of lightness within the constructing, additional accentuated by the obvious fragility with which the heavy slab rests on a really occasional contact with a pillar, liberating your complete room from any structural parts,” Marques instructed Dezeen.
“This lightness and feeling of integration helps us cut back the undertaking to its most simple essence, which in follow are two dominant supplies in a volumetric composition the place the stability of the weather is the dominant ingredient,” he added.
Whereas Pavilion within the Backyard’s roof has an uncovered, board-marked concrete end, the supporting volumes and a slender vertical column have been clad with inexperienced, marble-effect ceramic tiles.
“The selection of supplies was based mostly on two facets, the primary associated to the discount of long-term upkeep – the uncooked supplies, equivalent to concrete and the ceramic coating of the facade, don’t require a lot upkeep past their spot cleansing,” stated Marques.
“The second side is expounded to the try to combine the constructed mass into the pure context, in order that the constructing blends in with the environment, thus lowering its influence regardless of its scale,” he added.
A bar stands on the southern aspect of the central space, whereas to the east a recessed serving counter with a pizza oven is lined in matt gold-coloured panels.
Spaceworkers was established by Rui Dinis, Henrique Marques and Carla Duarte in 2007. Earlier initiatives by the studio embody a blocky concrete house in Sobrado punctured by deep window reveals and a museum in Lousada devoted to the historical past of Romanesque structure.
The pictures is by Fernando Guerra.
