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Public Threshold

Private Threshold

Quinta da Malagueira, vora


Alvaro Siza, 1977
The layout of the Quinta da Malagueria scheme corresponds to the earlier development of street patterns. The new roads follow lines of
existing footpaths. There are only two house types in the scheme. The creation of these new streets brings a permeability to the scheme,
it becomes part of the urban fabric, not a object placed on its context. These new permeable streets become a public threshold for the
community.
In the project, the new streets created become a public threshold in which communicty intreactions take place along walls and doorways.
Upon entering trough the door, one enters not into the house as expected, but into a private outdoor threshold space. It is from here that
the entrance to the house lies.
The wall to the public street acts as a shield to the entrance threshold to the house, it creates a sense of privacy and solitude. The
threshold sequence is a private and intimate to the users of the house.

Ailbhe Walsh
Dublin School of Architecture, D.I.T

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