RM House in Murtal
Description
This house is located on a tough ground, of whimsical configuration and accentuated slope.
In the beginning of the project the view over the Cascais’ bay was wonderful. Now there is the way a bulky urbanization known as “Jardins da Parede” (Parede Gardens).
Previously, the allotment defined the house in its volumetric and in the distribution in two separate volumes, one for inhabiting and another for parking the cars.
This project was also very much marked by the owner of the house, who gave us a strict preliminary program, a scrapbook with organized magazine clippings, as he insisted that his house would have a tiled roof like most of the surrounding houses.
He also asked for it to have a porch, a pool fed by a waterfall and a profuse use of wood in the building materials, because of the comforting proprieties of this element in a home.
The land lot, beside the slope, was punctuated by two medium-sized pine trees, which we agreed to preserve as to attenuate the impact of the excessive building meanwhile taken place.
The project began by the roof, which became skin, thought out as a continuous and folded plan, a sort of origami, drawn from the land’s topography. It is the shelter of the built volumes, over which it delicately lands.
In its design, we just reproduced the rigid volumetric defined by the building regulation, limited between the scantiness of the possible implantation and the large dimension of the program.
In the lower floor, the volume detaches itself from the ground and it hovers, laid on two metallic caps, thus freeing beneath the house a levelled outside area that grants support to the pool.
Datasheet
Murtal, Portugal
650 m2
ARX Portugal, Arquitectos lda.
José Mateus
Nuno Mateus
Paulo Rocha, Stefano Riva
Structures
TAL PROJECTO, Projectos, Estudos e Serviços de Engenharia Lda.
Photography
Daniel Malhão
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