House at Quinta da Marinha

Cascais, Portugal

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House at Quinta da Marinha

Cascais, Portugal

Firm

Areacor

Type

Residential › Private House

YEAR

2009

SIZE

25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

The house is situated in
a luxury residential area overlooking the golf course at Quinta da Marinha, Cascais, Portugal,
subject to restrictions imposed by the local rules, by the orientation of the
lot and the house program.
The challenge was to create, a solution that would allow
the house to take the most of the golf course view and position itself to
create an outdoor recreation area protected from wind.
The solution was the development of the house in two main
volumes:
§ the ground floor with south/north
orientation, bounded on the east side by a stone wall that separates the
entrance area of all the remaining area.
§ Another volume on the upper floor, were
the bedrooms are, with a perpendicular orientation.

At ground floor, stands a whole glass body,
whose transparency allows visualization of the surroundings (golf course), and for
those outside facing the swimming pool will be shielded from the prevailing north
wind. The kitchen, living room, dining room and master bedroom
are developed on the ground floor and access to garage, located on the lower
floor will be facilitated by an elevator. The privacy of
the bedroom and main bathroom located and oriented to the south, was assured
with the deployment of a wall and water surroundings.
All the flat roofs were made with a solution that creates
a sealed "water box", where it accumulates a continuous sheet of
water that ensures harmonization of temperature variation between day and night
and summer and winter. This system also allows the use of rain water, forming a natural
reserve of water for irrigation.
The introduction of an
inner courtyard on the top floor provides interior of room’s solar exposure on east
and west sides, since the main glazing of these rooms is exposed to the view
from the north side.
Another major challenge has
been to establish a recreation area with indoor pool, jacuzzi, sauna and
Turkish bath, being limited to the legal issues and aesthetics. The solution adopted, established
this area in the basement floor, but ripping the ground sloping to the north
and west allowed the space to present a natural light and garden views.
By putting up the rooms facing north, the result of the south
facade is not interesting and to change it, we specified mirrored glass, behind
a fence of steel tubes arranged randomly. This railing and mirrored glass also
ensures the privacy of this space since the day reflection of the glass and confusion
tubes inhibit visualization of what goes on inside the house. At night,
artificial lighting focusing on the exterior mirror glass, using LED lamps has
the same effect.
The entire access to the main entrance door to the house
is done with concrete slabs placed on top of the water. Submerged
spotlights placed under these slabs gives a very interesting effect at night.

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House at Quinta da Marinha

Cascais, Portugal

House at Quinta da Marinha

Cascais, Portugal

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