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Tentsmuir Forest, Dundee photo © Thomas Deckker 2007
2 Beach House Projects
2020-21/

Thomas Deckker Architect: Standard House Types, Brasília
Standard House Types, Brasília
2020

Thomas Deckker Architect: 3 Tower House Projects
3 Tower House Projects
2018-20

Thomas Deckker Architect: Project for a Penthouse, London
Some Nice Ideas for a Penthouse
2015

Thomas Deckker Architect: Project for Private Houses and a Tenement, Dundee
Some Nice Ideas for Dundee
2013

Thomas Deckker Architect: Offices for a Brazilian Company, London
Offices for a Brazilian Company
London
2011-12

Thomas Deckker Architect: Duval Renovation, Brasília
Duval Apartment Renovation
Brasília, Brazil
2009-10

Thomas Deckker Architect: landscape urbanism, Abu Dhabi
Some Nice Ideas for Abu Dhabi
2010

Thomas Deckker Architect: 2 Development Studies, London
2 Development Studies
London
2004

Thomas Deckker: Magalhães House
Magalhães House
QL18, Brasília, Brazil
1993 - 2001
Thomas Deckker: Moore House Project
Moore House Project
Algarve, Portugal
1994-95

superquadra model
Superquadra Penthouse Project
Brasília, Brazil
1993 - 2001

Thomas Deckker: Clínica de Câncer, Brasília
Clínica de Câncer, Brasília
SHLS, Brasília, Brazil
1995

Thomas Deckker: Magalhães Project
Magalhães Project
QI26, Brasília, Brazil
1993-95

Thomas Deckker: Thompson House
Thompson House Project
Cambridge, England
1992

Thomas Deckker: Camara Municipal Competition Entry 1989
3 Competition Entries for Brazil
1989-90

Thomas Deckker Architect: 'Brasília' Table
'Brasília' Table
1990

Thomas Deckker: Soares Apartment Renovation
Soares Apartment Renovation
Brasília, Brazil
1987

Thomas Deckker: Moore House
Moore House
Gerrards Cross, England
1984-87

Thomas Deckker: Magalhães House
Thomas Deckker Architect: Magalhães House, Brasília
photograph © Michael Frantzis 2003

Magalhães House Index

Spaces

The starting point for the Magalhães family was their discomfort with the claustrophobic corridors of the neighbouring 'colonial' houses, which was happily in accord with my own desire to make the centre of the house a space of shifting definition - from entrance hall, to central circulation space, to part of the living room, and to open all rooms off it. This gave a wonderful opportunity to introduce a vertical space into what was necessarily, due to the size of the accommodation required, a horizontal plan. It also gave space and reason to a feature which lifted the house from being an anonymous white box: a wall clad with boards of frejo wood rising to a skylight.
Thomas Deckker: Magalhães House
Thomas Deckker Architect: Magalhães House
floor plans
This wall reminded me of a disassembled boat I had seen in the National Maritime Museum, in which the 3-dimensional form of the boat was implicit in the spaces between the strakes. In the Magalhães House the wall is cut and folded to provide almost a map of the house.
Disassembled boat, National Maritime Museum, London
Disassembled boat, National Maritime Museum, London
photograph © Thomas Deckker 1992
Thomas Deckker: Magalhães House
Thomas Deckker Architect: Magalhães House, Brasília
photograph © Michael Frantzis 2003
Thomas Deckker: Magalhães House
Thomas Deckker Architect: Magalhães House, Brasília
photograph © Michael Frantzis 2003