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.
The project is located in Marvila, one of the oldest industrial and working-class areas in Lisbon, a district that, while not being fully integrated into the city, ended up belonging to it integrally, undergoing a process of urban regeneration, awaited for decades.
An organic house where Architect Sandra Casinhas was inspired by white petals for the exterior volume, while the internal curved walls and earth tones define its spatiality and connectivity with nature.
Composed of an overlapping of pure volumes, its arrangement corresponds to the desire of creating a visual barrier between living spaces and the street, allowing maximum privacy to be achieved.
The HL apartment is located on the top floor of an industrial-style building, located on the south bank of the Douro River, very close to the Arrábida Bridge.
The concept of the building was created taking into account the company’s principal activity, thisbeing, the production of bakery and pastry machines which produce dough for bread and pastries.
