Álvaro Siza

As an architect I am used to many complexities; here there were none until I was told that I was free to make some changes in the dimensions. I had hoped not to be able to. This made the project very difficult and also very exciting because architects normally design within a very strict framework.
For the Kolonihavehus I went back to my childhood and what a house represented for a child and combined it with what I remembered from a trip to Scandinavia a long time ago. I remembered seeing many houses with triangular gables.
The house is constructed of wood sitting on a slab of solid granite and leaning against a wall of solid granite. The gable is triangular, the granite square. There is a fireplace built into the hard granite at the back of the house.
Alvaro Siza

Photo: Jens Lindhe

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Alvaro Siza
Siza - Setubal College of Education
Siza - Oporto University Faculty of Architecture