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VIGÉSIMO
SEGUNDO LIVRO
METAMORPHOSED
PLACES
Metamorphosed
places are those works in which the original idea of the building is no
longer identifiable.
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The
building consisting of a Bank
Agency, an apartment and two shops at Moçamedes, in
southern Angola, had to be built behind a long ruined adobe wall
to comply with the rulings of the Monuments Commission. Inside there
was almost nothing to restore so in the interior I invented a series
of spaces interconnected through huge and very thick semi-circular
arches.
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My
own House in Melville, I turned back to front and
enlarged, although it retains the possibility of becoming semis
again by closing the two openings on the party wall.
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In
the Cricket Pavilion which I turned into a Chapel
at Wits I reinforced many of the original features of the building,
but the spaces are so interconnected and so related to the symmetry
and axiality of the building that the haphazard interior sub-division
of the pavilion is totally eliminated. On the other hand many of
the alterations are so integrated into the original work that they
are not identifiable as new work.
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House
at Eugaria, Portugal, is being created from a simple traditional
farmhouse on a very steep hillside. Around the house are a series
of interlinked terraces with stepped and curving retaining walls
and steps. Windows push out of the envelope and bulging iron grilles
punctuate the stone plinth.
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