Comporta, Grândola, Portugal
Aires Mateus Arquitectos
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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This construction is composed by 4 little houses in a place near the sea. They where reconstructed with traditional methods using wood and a traditional stem.
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This project was build on the
sand that is a natural and abundant material that was transported to the interior of the common places (the
living room and the kitchen) giving this way the connection between the environment and the new and totally integrated construction.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Nelson Garrido |
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This is the most spectacular on this project, being on the living room with your feet on the sand, this is a totally comfortable construction even with warming floor that warms up the sand.
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This project is a response to very specific conditions. Its basis is the recovery of existing wood-masonry buildings, providing the complex with a homogeneous unity under a sloping roof. The design begins with the existing material conditions, depending on their inhabitation potential.
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The brief suggests the renovation of the masonry buildings, adapting them for use as individual rooms, while one of the two wooden volumes is converted into a two-bedroom pavilion and the other is the pavilion for common areas.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Nelson Garrido |
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The street entrance emerges through the sandy ground, which is used as a basis for all the constructions. This treated material is spread as paving inside the community pavilion, qualifying the domestic conditions with a sense of natural comfort. The textural continuity of powerful material like sand changes the scale of the interior spaces, making the act of inhabitation a unique poetic experience, fitting for the sort of experience sought for this place.
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| situation plan--drawing © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| site plan--drawing © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| floor plan 1--drawing © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| floor plan 2--drawing © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| elevation 1--drawing © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| elevation 2--drawing © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| elevation 3--drawing © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| elevation 4--drawing © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| elevation 5--drawing © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| section 1--drawing © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| detailed section--drawing © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
Project Data
Project name: Casa Areia
Location: Comporta, Grândola, Portugal
Program: Beach House
Floor area: 180 m2
Project year: 2008 – 2010
The people
Client: João Rodrigues
Architects: Aires Mateus Arquitectos
Collaborator: Humberto Fonseca
Coordinator: Maria Rebelo Pinto
Photographs: ©
Nelson Garrido
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