Fazer uma Casa / Making a Home

Making a house is no easy matter: you need to start at the beginning, stay the course and make it to the end. It takes determination and a certain amount of optimism. Initially, the goal seems so easy to achieve, so close that you can already see yourself walking around inside the house. However, it’s never easy, nothing ever goes according to plan and, in the end, it takes much longer than you expect.

That’s the period that this book covers, the time spent thinking about a project, meditating on it, designing, discussing, building and supervising; all done as a team, bringing client, architect, site manager and builder together in a common goal. Telling this story is both documenting a journey and reflecting on it, a moment in time that in many ways is identical to so many other projects and so many other people. It’s a shared experience that is worth passing on to others and remembering.

In this particular case, how the journey progressed and how certain ideas were arrived at is the most interesting thing to relate. Through this description, which combines various materials and contents, we can understand the project in its various dimensions, both in its more practical and technical aspects, as well as in its social and human components. Not everything is immediately visible; we need to understand how we got there, study the process. Understanding this opens up a great opportunity for us, as architecture lovers, so that it becomes legible and capable of surprising us.

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