Light and space
Designer and architect Fernanda Marques describes, in a nutshell, her inspiration
for this very unique, 1-story, 250 square meter house: “Being inside feeling
like one is outside. I believe that to be a key issue in understanding the
interior design being produced today. In times when environmental awareness is
growing, and, of course, also the desire to be close to nature.”
We have featured other houses that also blur the interior-exterior divide by including rooms or certain parts of the house designed to be more accessible to the outdoors than the norm.
But Marques’ design takes the blurring of the interior-exterior divide to an extreme by designing multiple wooden decks that link various rooms to the outdoors, glass ceilings, and floor-to-ceiling glass windows and doors – thereby creating an entire house that is almost completely and breathtakingly exposed to the great outdoors.
As one views the images of this stunning bungalow style home, it is indeed difficult to perceive whether the home is outdoors or inside, and whether it exists in a fictional world we read about in fairy-tales or in the real world– and that is how Marques intended we react.
