HOUSE + STORE IN AZENHAS DO MAR, PT

  • João Galhardo Santos
From the analysis of the site, it was taken as the draft idea was the dichotomy between the sea and the land.
Since the lot that the house is located is based on a cliff with a forty meters down the scenic shock becomes even more pronounced. So, considering the violent confrontation here between the sea and the land, it was decided that both the private space and public street eye contact with the sea would be made on the edge of the ravine while the village and the southern slope of Azenhas do Mar will be done inside the lot.
The rugged design of the house assimilates in the same way as the type of most of the houses in the village sugaring is this the irregular polygon formed by the lot perimetre. But who gets to shop or home, is faced with a cubic volume which completes the relationship between the neighboring house and the new intervention.