Places
Fernando Guerra / FG + SG
Regular Visits
Building with partial access to people with reduced mobility
Tours
Visit accompanied by the architect António Choupina
Maximum 40 people per visit
No reservation required; first-come, first-served
No wheelchair access
Photography allowed
Description
This house, with an entrance on the street that gave it its name, is the result of the author’s persistence, also the owner, that started by acquiring a land without access to the street, and that during six years looked for a connection that made the project of this studio-house possible. The shape of the plot, a result of portioning the land, allows an inward quality that the program, organized lengthwise along the building, also potentiates: the studio near the street, then the garage and service areas, and finally the house connecting to the garden. The street façade is misleading. Behind this plan the shape expands in three dimensions in a living body that Álvaro Leite Siza admits was born of a sketch of a harlequin. The geometrical abstraction of this figure ties the interiors together with the eloquent expression of a classical past with excesses characteristic of the baroque style: two pools, a ceiling that opens and rolls into two huge scrolls, a dinning table with some meters of length, lamps, handles, doors, handrails, paintings and furniture. In Fez Street there is a Harlequin laughing (and no one can see it).
Location
Rua de Fez, 627
Directions: Google Maps / Apple Maps
Public Transport
Bus: STCP - 201, 202, 502, 504