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Looking Down Into A House In Leiria
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- Clara Renner
The sleek, modern, and minimal whited-out house designed by architect, Manuel Aires Mateus, features an indoor-outdoor experience where one can look down into a room’s private patio.
The accustomed shape of the house is slabbed together with clean white-concrete walls quietly in an intimate environment in the outskirts of Leiria, Portugal. In addition, a large squared opening on one side of the roof giving natural light to the living room and darkness for stargazing at nightfall.
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