Keep Exploring Architizer by Creating a Free Account or Logging in.

This feature is for industry professionals.  To unlock it, signup and then join or add your company. To unlock this feature,  signup and then submit your professional details.

Membership is Free.

LinkedIn Facebook Google
or
Already a Member? Sign in.
Add To Collection Add to Collection
House in Castelo Melhor  

House in Castelo Melhor

Castelo Melhor, Portugal

Project Featured on Jan 25, 2016
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection

Other Projects by CORREIA/RAGAZZI Arquitectos
Add To Collection Add to Collection

Sotheby's
Add To Collection Add to Collection

Agroturismo em Melgaço
Add To Collection Add to Collection

Cabeleireiro na Foz
Add To Collection Add to Collection

House in Lousado
Add To Collection Add to Collection

Elementary School S. João Brito
Add To Collection Add to Collection

Casa no Geres

House in Castelo Melhor

Castelo Melhor, Portugal

Project Featured on Jan 25, 2016
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2013
The clients wanted a weekend/vacation house and the plot was on a rural area with an extraordinary natural landscape. Our aim was to establish a visual relation with the landscape, mainly with the castle and the beautiful valleys planted with olive and almond trees. It was also our intention to preserve and highlight a pre-existence of very interesting features, both for its patrimonial nature as well as its beauty, the stone threshing floor, and for that reason the house appears in its limit, slightly raised and detached in order not to depreciate it, transforming it into an outdoor terrace, a well-defined platform; the house sets itself according to the stone threshing floor’s measures and by it, resulting, simultaneously, with some formal autonomy. Of equal importance was the decision to ensure the maintenance of most of the existing trees, leaving the house surrounded by vegetation.
Regarding the materials, one chose slat masonry, characteristic of the area, for the exterior structural walls, maintaining the concrete slabs visible. All the existent, traditional walls, around the plot, were recuperated.
The lightness of the house is accentuated by its fragmentation on the four corners, asymmetric for different reasons, either looking for a landscape framing, due to the dominant winds or even sun exposure.

Product Spec Sheet

Were your products used?
Join as a manufacturer to add your products.

Collaborating Firms

Was your firm involved? Add it now.

Team

Were you involved? Add yourself.
Oops… Something didn't work.

Please check support.architizer.com for more information.

We are here to help! Contact us at support@architizer.com.