André Campos . Joana Mendes Arquitectos, Armenio Teixeira · Casa Wallpaper

Photo by Arménio Teixeira. © Arménio Teixeira

[UNTITLED] HOUSE
When asked us to design this house, we don’t know what to do, no constraints, the program was not specific and the site didn’t exist, so, as in painting, the name of Untitled.
Without site becomes very difficult, if not impossible to project.
Without references, we therefore have to choose a site. The other issue relates to the field to choose an urban land, or a site in the countryside, or a mountain, etc..
Given the circumstances we decided to accept the challenge of designing a shelter house in the middle of a land with plenty of vegetation.
The conditions were the trees and topography. Cheering up as a snake, the building contour de trees, without drop the trees, thus outlining the shape of the building.