Schmithausen House
Concebida para um casal alemão, a Schmithausen House foi o primeiro projecto independente da Gummavitta. Com uma localização idílica, e uma vista magnífica sobre o oceano algarvio, o projecto consistia na concepção de uma moradia de dois quartos, com aproximadamente 120 m2. Das premissas básicas do projecto encontravam-se a vontade de recuperar o possível de uma estrutura existente, e o desejo de potenciar o relação com o panorama magnífico.
Em 2004, um incêndio de enormes proporções lavrou toda aquela encosta da Serra de Monchique. Junto à casa existe uma oliveira que sobreviveu à catástrofe. Esta serviu de ponto zero do projecto. Um renascimento das cinzas, onde a utilização de materiais existentes e o respeito pela natureza serviram de mote.
A composição proposta baseia-se no equilíbrio entre o corpo horizontal, onde a linguagem tradicional é reinterpretada, e o corpo elevado, em rotação, sublinhando a relação que pretende estabelecer com a paisagem dominante, materializado numa linguagem pura e contemporânea.
Designed for a German couple, the Schmithausen House was Gummavitta’s first freelance project. On an idyllic setting, with magnificent views over the Algarve Sea, the project consisted on a double bedroom house of about 120 m2. The basic premises were the will to reuse as much as possible an existing structure, and the desire to make the most of the tremendous panorama that dominates the site.
In 2004, a terrible fire devastated most of the Serra de Monchique’s green landscape. Next to the existing house, an Olive Tree survived the catastrophe. It became the conceptual starting point for the house, as it seemed to represent the rebirth from the ashes. A sheer will to live. The recycling of materials and the respect for the environment became the resolution.
The proposed composition is based on a balance between the horizontal body, where the traditional language is reinterpreted, and the elevated body, rotated to emphasized the intention to explore the dominant view to the landscape, and materialized in a pure contemporary language.
Localização - Location
Implantação - Site plan
Planta piso superior - Upper level plan
Alçado Nascente - East elevation
Alçado Poente - West elevation
Welcome to my ongoing diary of thoughts and projects.
Here I sketch the storyboard of 2 characters, trapped in my body and linked to the world through my senses. They control my brain in a constant search for life waves, the eternal energy that feeds their souls.
Gummavitta is the explorer, the architect and the scientist. He searches the hemispheres of the earth, the mind and the human condition.
Mummagumma is the traveler, the painter and the dancer who collects Gummavitta´s experiences and memories and applies them to achieve connections. Connections with himself, which means you and I, us and them.
