Cork Trees House

The film produced by Building Pictures about ‘Casa dos Sobreiros’ (‘Cork Trees House’) by Trama Arquitetos, is the response to a request made to Google: “Google! Show me what it feels like to live… in a Trama Arquitetos’ house.”

We enter the house guided by a car, and we find a blind facade in schist and corten steel. When we open the door, we can perceive a close relationship between landscape and nature with the project. This relationship happens not only through the huge glass panels but also through a lake that crosses the house from an entrance area to the living room. The window frame, when it is collected, deprives the harmony of the house of the same name with the crown of the cork oaks, such as a garden that floats on the horizon.

The film accompanies the daily rhythm of the house and shows the fluidity between the spaces of the kitchen, living room, dining room, and bedrooms, distributed on the ground floor of the house. It is worth noting the constructive and material quality, and the way the spaces reflect the routines, as well as the paths that the day-to-day requires. Even the bathroom spaces are presented as if they were noble spaces in the house.

The film ends with night images of the house and shows the relationship between lighting and architecture.