Our goal was to integrate the building into the surrounding landscape, by choosing a strategic position to settle the house and by selecting cork as the main covering layer – a camouflage around the trunks of the pine trees.
Developing a project for a house uniquely for vacations has challenged us to create a spatial and programmatic concept that reflects this specificity.
The House in Praia do Pego is located in Grândola, around 900 meters from the coast. The site has an area of 1.239m² that provides a transition from the lower level of the public space, facing north, to a higher level of the site, facing south.
Located on the vast territory of Alentejo, the house in Grândola emerges from an extensive tank leaning against a wall facing south, as if it were a sounding board for the entire landscape.
House in Crato (Casa no Crato) was designed for a couple who loves nature and silence and that was looking for a retreat place, away from the hustle and bustle of the city.
The Prazeres 37 house is developed over two levels to adapt to the topography and to define the relationship with the construction in the neighboring plot. One of the main concerns of the design was to develop a volume as an anonymous element
I get in the car, turn the keys, listen to the noisy symphony coming from the engine, and hit the road to reach my house in the town of Amieira, next to Marinha Grande, the land of glass and the mold industry in Portugal.
The pre-existing Granary is located on the agricultural land of a 17th-century farmhouse. Surrounded by orchards, corn fields, vineyards and next to the river course, the granary is part of a bucolic and rural landscape of about 10ha of the farm.
