Jean Pierre Porcher, Margarida Oliveira, Albino Freitas, TOPOS Atelier de Arquitectura · House in Taíde

Photo by Xavier Antunes

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This house was built in accordance with the pre-existent farm buildings’ implantation and orientation.
The aim was to explore two autonomous construction methods by confronting and intercepting them: one uses the existing granite walls from the farmhouse, its windows and doors, to shelter the entrance garden and house work areas; the other, which enfolds the living areas and bedrooms, is made of a continuous concrete structure with aluminium frameworks.
In the garden, a flagstone pavement reunites the swimming pool and the original stone tanks.