Sunday 27 March 2011

House for elderly people
















This House for elderly people, located at Alcacer do Sal, Portugal, was designed by the office of the brothers Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus.


In his recent work the photographer Fernando Guerra captures the importance of the moment and of fruition in architectural design were this project, playful, sensual and somewhat enigmatic, shows abstraction forms in a continuos metamorphosis.


Independents unities aggregate into a unique body that resemble on the work of nature. "The building, designed path, is a wall that naturally rises from the topography: it limits and defines the open space, and organize the entire plot".


Image credit: Fernando Guerra.