Experimental

On a sloping site on the outskirts of Fátima, two houses descend in pairs. Everything here is organised in twos — two houses, two floors, two spaces, two windows, two roofs. Not out of symmetry, but out of resonance.

The slope of the land dictates a stepped implantation, allowing both houses to assert themselves with autonomy and views. Each house mirrors the other in design logic, yet diverges in gesture: one opens to the landscape beneath a pitched roof; the other retreats under a flat one. Two ways of living, two attitudes towards the site.

Inside, the spaces are also structured in pairs — social and private zones, distributed across two levels that respond to the incline. The openings appear in twos, sometimes side by side, facing one another, creating axes of light and cross views.

Everything functions in parity, as if the project were a conversation between two distinct ways of occupying the same terrain. The design is precise, almost musical — composed of repetitions and variations that honour the topography and celebrate coexistence.