After 10 years of abandonment the clients wanted to refurbish their holiday house in Barlavento (southwest Algarve), which sits in a heavenly place overlooking a beach surrounded by sand cliffs. The house, at 20 years of age, became obsolete in face of present-day standards of services and comfort: the kitchen was too small and cut off from the social space, the bathrooms were narrow and of complicated use, the terrace was underused, the choice of materials was arbitrary.Various spaces were reconfigured to improve the functionality of the house: the entrance hall, which led to the bathroom and the kitchen, became a silent transitional space between the street and the living room, with kitchen now accessible from the dining room; the bathroom in the upper floor, which was too indented, assumed a central stance in the body of the house; the terrace, by means of a system of moveable shutters, became a second living room.The original house resonates Algarve’s building tradition, albeit in a naïf and loose manner. Instead of forcing an adaptation to a new language, we sought to imbue the house’s original language with substance and continuity, sequencing these echoes along the house, designing an experience that is as much spatial as it is physical, sensual, as a hedonist ritual that links bathing activities, outdoor and indoor activities.