House in Grândola
Description
Grândola is a town we have always loved, place of close family life.
Although the town has fine and abundant specimens of popular Alentejo architecture, the allotment where the house is grounded is recent and peripheral. Its urbanization is dense and most of it is pretentious and displaced.
The project evolved naturally, progressively, in short but clear steps. We started out from a frame of quite restrict programmatic data: number of rooms, living-room, kitchen, respective areas.
Alongside all this, a recurring and assuring suggestion transferring the doubt onto the architect: “make like you were making your own”.
We intended the exterior of the house to be simple and precise: compact, partially introverted, and assuring privacy in an area characterized by the close proximity of other buildings.
From the traditional Alentejo architecture, besides the solid white volume, it retains only some traces or topics. If weight and tectonic sense impose themselves, lightness and delicateness is introverted. In the interior one finds the patio, an “absent” cube, both exterior and the centre of the house.
Unexpectedly, one finds light, warmth, comfort, privacy, space and the transparency that the small and opaque outside volume seems to hide.
Datasheet
Grândola, Portugal
220 m2
ARX Portugal, Arquitectos lda.
José Mateus
Nuno Mateus
Paulo Rocha, Isabel Gorjão Henriques
Photography
Daniel Malhão
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