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Cinfães, Portugal

Tendais House

"Silver Medal" na categoria de " Single house family"
A43

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LOCATION. Arrivals Cinfães still missing 12 km. We continue to go up the Douro river to the mountains Montemuro. When approaching the site we noticed a village – Tendais – unique landscape where time seems to want nothing with this place. From the site, facing the West, once again, a silent and grand landscape. In the foreground, the mountains protect the time to get there. Silence installed provides a resting place after a week of hard work.

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DEPLOYMENT. The land is located in the far north of the parish of tents. In this, the implementation of dwelling occupies a long narrow rectangle, separated from the remaining land by a stone wall. The volume presents itself as more of a terraced hillside, simple and unobtrusive, given the local environment. A rectangle of 62.5mx 7.5m, oriented in a north-south, defines a volume of predominant horizontality. Monolith, designed with a pure

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geometry, features an opening directly related to the outside, only in the social space, framing and Enjoying the scenery.

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HOUSE. Rather, we are welcomed by a space which receives and holds the car. Then enter the building and passed quietly through the kitchen.

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BRIGHTNESS. The corridor patterns and the natural light that marks the route access to the rooms. The first moment corresponds to the room and social space where a huge opening frames the landscape. In search of light, the second moment corresponds to the rooms facing south, with a double space, the space of rest and a patio. The final time corresponds to the office or second lounge and / or work, facing north and bright reflection of light in the wall of the courtyard that surrounds it.

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MATERIALITY. The materials are simple. Mostly finished and painted, the dwelling use of slate and ceramic insert. Dominated by white, is revealed by the light …

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