Located on a plain in the Algarve, in the Sotavento region, the house occupies an introspective plot which doesn’t see beyond its own limits.
In a position of maximum centrality a regular platform is constructed which is square and twenty metres wide. This platform is the location of the house.
On top of the platform, a single brick wall spreads itself out and draws a new limit defining, in an instant, the internal and external spaces.
The external areas are patios, differing in orientation, but all covered with a shade structure of cane, capable of ensuring delicate levels of coolness.
In the interior, pink painted wood cupboards divide the spaces of the house, hierarchically between public and private areas.
The concrete ceiling is visible from the interior as a kind of sculptural element, which levitates over all the spaces, as an inverted shell shape, reinforcing the centrality of the position.
From the outside the concave geometry of the roof is completed by the shade structures that, although belonging to the same design, are constructed from different material.
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