House On The Flight of Birds - Creative House
The House on the Flight of Birds is a creative house designed by
Portuguese architect Bernardo Rodrigues completed in 2010. This
single family residence is located in Ribeira Grande, a municipality on
Soa Miguel island in the Azores, Portugal.
The micro-climate of this farmland offers frequent wind and showers so
the first design strategy was to block with a wall those winds, offer
diverse patios and covered courtyards on the ground floor protected from
rain and open all living space to the natural green around by glass walls
receded from the exterior.
On the upper-floor there's the private rooms more enclosed and
protected. The typology follows almost classical Palladian and scamozzi
central plan design with double height on living room and then two
lateral wings enclosing one the kitchen, also quotes the high chimneys
from popular residential architecture and a covered interior patio, and
the other wing has the circulations for the first floor and to the roof terrace.
