DÉCIMO QUINTO LIVRO
HABITABLE BOXES AND PEOPLE SHELVES
These boxes and shelves model themselves on the early works of the Modern Movement which were like huge cubical machines, Machines à Habiter, but they are mostly quite brightly painted. In some of them each apartment is identified by expressing it as an unit on the cellular façades. In all of them the access and circulation is schematic and direct.
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The Building for Antonio Fernandes in Alto Mahé frames each the two apartments on either side of the stairs and bears a large and walled roof terrace. A pebble mural faces the street. It is also the wall enclosing the garden of one of the ground apartments. |
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The House of the Dragon has a huge raised entrance portico and many differentiated stone mosaic textures The black end white dragon is some twelve metres long.
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The Apartments and Shops at Maxaquene identify the three different rent sections of the building in three layers - the shops, the apartments and the servants' quarters. |
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The large Predio Tonelli has both small bachelor flats and duplexes. The facades express this and the various means of access.
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