[Daniel Zamarbide and Leopold Banchini].
This landscape of closed buildings was featured by numerous opaque facades, hiding the interiors as if the life of those buildings had disappeared or was in a frozen state, waiting for better times to open the windows again and let the sunshine in. Streets with no windows, faces without eyes. This particular situation has evolved in Lisbon at a faster pace. The city center’s reconstruction has opened the eyes to welcome an aggressive airbnb economy re-creating a well-known phenomenon that other cities in Europe have already gone through.
Evidently, the project responds as well to a complexity of functional requirements that has turned the house into a “machine à habiter”, playing again, quite deliberately and strongly with the history of modernism and its inhabitable typologies. In the end the Dodged house is quite a simple and readable project. Although it might be complex in its inscription into the urban fabric and historical context, it is nevertheless quite straightforward in its way to occupy space and distribute the program in a small plot. As its names indicates, the Dodged house makes an attempt to elude, to trick, an actual state of a certain architecture in Lisbon. Text description by the architects.
Source: bureau.ac
Images by: Dylan Perrenoud
