Comments on: Casa Funchal 05 by Paulo David

By: Clonic

Clonic — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:21:51 +0000

glamur

By: tiago

tiago — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:11:33 +0000

siza meets black

By: Joao

Joao — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:04:41 +0000

I like it, feels smooth and calm. It suits the hills and uses local materials. White would be boring.

By: chulong

chulong — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:49:27 +0000

nice project! nothing more, nothing less!

By: Miguel

Miguel — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:18:28 +0000

I don’t like it…at all!

Looks like a freshman project, as it does not adapt to the surrounding area.

The decoration also looks very poor…

(Just my opinion)

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:58:11 +0000

PS. I am not referring to the sophisticated and very human efforts of say, Mies, as exemplified in the Farnsworth House. That project, and others, seem to receive the phenomena of the natural world and look upon them. there is a relation. I point here to the utterly featureless blankness of the white interior, which suggests, instead, the death of the interior, the occupants, and the impossibility of any real contact with the world.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:16:28 +0000

I am feeling a bit depressed with all this black and white a-contextual austerity. The project, as accomplished as it may be, does not even have that ‘typological’ autonomy which might somehow locate it in the World. It is simply blank. I do not understand those posts that talk about its beauty. What touches the human spirit here? I see surfaces: sophisticated in their profile, perhaps, but denying all entry, all possibility of relation. There is not even a blankness that turns one to its setting. if its blankness is supposed to turn one to look at the rest of the world, is that not a sad sort of project? And a terribly unsophisticated one at that? Who might occupy such a domain?

By: Tristan

Tristan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:37:16 +0000

terrible sliding glass doors on the ground level

By: s alva dore

s alva dore — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:23:47 +0000

a very nice project. i think it is not beautiful, it is just very good in this context.

By: PACMAN

PACMAN — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:14:08 +0000

…its a bit sad to see a huge contention wall behind it in order to make a flat house on a steep terrain…kinda kills the context no?

but overall its a “nice” project. nothing more, nothing less…