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Casa No Tempo
“In Casa No Tempo, it was about
this idea to remake an archetype of
a traditional house in the middle
of the countryside, but more than
that was to really…redesign their
memories of the property. So our
intention was really to make that
project become very natural on the
way they use it…but at the same
[time] the way it belongs to the
place, the natural way you see in
that area. And the material became,
of course, the traditional material
already made, so we wanted to keep
the memories of the time, of the
building, so all the variety of
the wall…we decided to keep this
irregularity then just add the
natural materials. And everything is
real. It is something very important.
It doesn’t look real, it is real. So
when you look at a ceramic piece it
is ceramic, and it doesn’t have 1cm,
it has 10x10 so it’s real; or the
stone, it’s not 2cm of stone, it’s
always more than 9; and the wood is
wood. So everything is very solid
in that sense. So it’s always about
try[ing] to give all the properties
a material can give. Our idea is
always using this reality and trying
to bring atmosphere through this
reality.”
Santa Clara 1728
“The idea there is to really create
the feeling of what could be a
traditional Lisbon house even if all
the elements that we use are not
traditional at all. What was more
important for us was not to design
a common bathroom that we have in
our memories from our grandmother’s,
or traditional way of designing
a bathroom, but…to use a kind of
atmosphere that in a novel process
the feeling of belonging to the
situation, belonging to the scene.
But then all the elements, the details
are
not
necessarily
traditional
ones. But what is interesting is
the feeling that you have there, you
have the feeling it is a traditional
house from Lisbon.”
