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蒙特塞拉特·萨莫拉诺

架构师提供的文本描述。我再次谈到萨拉马戈：“最重要的是，我与时间的关系是非常具体的…。当我试图用图形来表达它时，我把时间理解为一个大屏幕，一个巨大的屏幕，每一个事件都被投影，包括最古老的事件和最近的事件。在屏幕上，一切都是在一种混乱中并肩作战，就像时间在表面上被压缩和扁平一样；仿佛事件、事实和人被无序地展示和聚集，而不是被历时性地聚集起来，而我们注定要找到一个意义。“(1)

Text description provided by the architects. I take Saramago once again: “My relation with time is, above all, very specific….when trying to express it graphically; I understand time as a large screen, a huge screen, where every single event is projected, including the oldest and the most recent. On that screen, everything is side by side in a kind of chaos as if time was compressed and flattened on that surface; as if events, facts and people were shown and assembled chaotically instead of being diachronically assembled, and we were meant to find a meaning.” (1) 

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蒙特塞拉特·萨莫拉诺

用萨拉马戈的话来说，时间的概念，扁平的时间，可能是我们渴望的终极梦想。建筑作为捕捉场所、地形、景观、风俗和人的工具的想法。该项目完成了保留、整理、组织当地习俗和品质的任务。一个平坦的时间，由地形清理，按功能安排，按空间限定处理。

That idea of time, Flat Time, described in Saramago’s words, could be the ultimate dream we aspire to. That idea of architecture as a tool for capturing places, topographies, landscapes, customs and people. That project fulfils the mission of retaining, composing, organizing customs and qualities of the place. A Flat Time, cleared up by topography, arranged by function and disposed by space qualification. 

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蒙特塞拉特·萨莫拉诺

一个深刻的建筑形象的空间配置和组织，这种可能性想象一个固定的时间居住是可能的，在那里我们的工作和劳动是自然界定的各种空间元素。

A profound architectural image of space disposition and organization, this possibility of imagining a Flat Time where inhabiting is made possible, where our work and labour is naturally defined by various space elements.

一个固定的时间，使我们能够；

A Flat Time that enables us to;

生活在土壤下面和空中。

Live below the soil and above the air.

生活在物质和景观中。

Live in substance and in landscape.

就好像事物和建筑都有一个特殊的特征，想象的构造逻辑植根于创造、处理、组装、组织的逻辑性质，这样我们就可以说事物是有本质的。

As if there was a character particular to things and to Architecture, where the logic of construction of the Imaginary is rooted in the logical nature of making, disposing, assembling, organizing, in such a way we can say there is a Nature of Things.

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蒙特塞拉特·萨莫拉诺

好像建筑总是建立一个真理和它的对立面。在重量和重量之间的关系中，这种对立面，那种引力错觉，在整个建筑史上始终孕育着建筑师们的梦想。它受到技巧和梦想的限制。我们所做的建筑应该追求轻盈的建筑，以物质的重量为特征，这是由自己时代的技巧所强加的。

As if Architecture has always built a truth and its opposite. In a relation between lightness and weight, that antithesis, that gravitational illusion has always nurtured the dreams of architects throughout the history of Architecture. It has been limited by skill and dream. The Architecture we make should pursue the building of lightness, with the weight characteristic to substance, which is imposed by the skill of its own time.

 Ground Floor Plan

Architects Phyd Arquitectura

Location Portugal

Category Houses

Architect in Charge Paulo Henrique Durão

Model Alexandre Calado

Area 285.0 sqm

Project Year 2008

Photographs Montserrat Zamorano