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Paradise Reframed. Garden in the Algarve
Paradise Reframed. Garden in the Algarve
Faro, Portugal
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Paradise Reframed. Garden in the Algarve
Faro, Portugal
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2022
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
Located in the south of Portugal, in the Algarve, one kilometre from the Atlantic, this garden is shaped by a Mediterranean climate of prolonged drought and increasing water scarcity, where limitation becomes a generative driver of form. Conceived as both family residence and high-end rental, it operates as a hybrid landscape of domesticity and hospitality, accommodating multiple rhythms of occupation within a clear spatial order.
The project is structured as a gradient of intensity: near the house, a robust, low-maintenance lawn supports collective use and extends interior life outward; beyond, the garden becomes progressively restrained, dissolving into a dispersed field of play, contemplation, and gathering embedded within an ecologically driven landscape. The orchard and vegetable garden create a temporal core, structuring time through cycles of growth and seasonality.
The project engages the long-standing idea of the garden of paradise as a space of refuge, pleasure, and separation from the uncertainties of its surroundings. From the earliest Persian gardens — where arid landscapes were transformed through controlled irrigation trough water channels— the garden has been defined by the deliberate construction of a protected, fertile world. Here, that lineage is not reproduced, but quietly redirected.
Comfort emerges from topography, vegetation, and the precise control of sun and exposure. The garden becomes a place of pause, not as an idea, but as something physically experienced in the slowing of movement and attention.
Space unfolds through a sequence of partial views shaped by clustered vegetal layers, generating a shifting spatial choreography: -There is no single reading of the garden; instead, it changes with position and movement. Planting follows this logic, changing from ornamental to native systems that enhance biodiversity and reduce irrigation, while built elements remain minimal, embedded, and open to time. The garden carries a constant, subtle soundscape, evoking long, slow summer days.
A contemporary garden of paradise, formally distinct from Islamic paradise gardens yet grounded in their shared logic of resource calibration and sensorial richness. Abundance gives way to contrast, diversity, and precision, with scarcity redefined not as a constraint, but as opportunity.
The project is structured as a gradient of intensity: near the house, a robust, low-maintenance lawn supports collective use and extends interior life outward; beyond, the garden becomes progressively restrained, dissolving into a dispersed field of play, contemplation, and gathering embedded within an ecologically driven landscape. The orchard and vegetable garden create a temporal core, structuring time through cycles of growth and seasonality.
The project engages the long-standing idea of the garden of paradise as a space of refuge, pleasure, and separation from the uncertainties of its surroundings. From the earliest Persian gardens — where arid landscapes were transformed through controlled irrigation trough water channels— the garden has been defined by the deliberate construction of a protected, fertile world. Here, that lineage is not reproduced, but quietly redirected.
Comfort emerges from topography, vegetation, and the precise control of sun and exposure. The garden becomes a place of pause, not as an idea, but as something physically experienced in the slowing of movement and attention.
Space unfolds through a sequence of partial views shaped by clustered vegetal layers, generating a shifting spatial choreography: -There is no single reading of the garden; instead, it changes with position and movement. Planting follows this logic, changing from ornamental to native systems that enhance biodiversity and reduce irrigation, while built elements remain minimal, embedded, and open to time. The garden carries a constant, subtle soundscape, evoking long, slow summer days.
A contemporary garden of paradise, formally distinct from Islamic paradise gardens yet grounded in their shared logic of resource calibration and sensorial richness. Abundance gives way to contrast, diversity, and precision, with scarcity redefined not as a constraint, but as opportunity.
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