This is called Casa no Geres, designed by Gracia Correia and Roverto Ragazzi for their clients, Mica and duardo Pinto Ferreira as their dream residential house located in Peneda-Geras National Park, along the Spanish border in northern Portugal. This house has been met with a range of different opinions from people, from hating it to loving it. It looks quite unsuitable for its surrounding. In some angles, the house seems like an accident, which is like a some kind of a transportation container or a wrecked spaceship being thrown at this site. While the house has a long rectangular shape, one part of the building is buried inside the hill while another sticks out over the river. It almost appears to be falling off the cliff of the hill at any moment.
However, it is easy to find the architect's intention from certain perspectives and angles of the house. Following the specific desires of the clients, Casa no Geres is a concrete house by the Cevado river. The floor plan of the house was made to fit in the site of 1000 square feet, while no trees were cut within 10 square feet around the house. Thanks for the natural environment, looking out from the inside shows the awesome beauty of the house design. The simplicity of the structure, the openness of the views and the calm balance of the elements seems to speak the same language as the cleak surroundings. Nature has a way of being beautiful even when it is not, and this house obviously reflects that.
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