Designed in a modular, prefabricated system which allows for different combinations of the same three modules — entrance/bathing, living, sleeping — the houses are extremely flexible, and able to adapt to diverse spaces within the park, creating different morphologies and diverse dialogues with the surrounding nature: occupying the empty spaces between the trunks of large trees in the park, and allowing each home to be unique.
The pitched roofs that caracterize the intervention redefine the contours of the park's boundaries. Inside each house, they create comfortable and dynamic, animated spaces. In each of the houses, one or more corners feature a large window framing a specific view of the park, bringing the surrounding nature inside, and linking the interior to a balcony designed to be an ideal resting space. Each dwelling's cladding evokes local, vernacular construction techniques.
Location: Parque de Pedras Salgadas, Bornes de Aguiar, Portugal
Completion: 2012
Typology: seven dwellings for eco-resort
Architects: Luís Rebelo de Andrade + Diogo Aguiar
Collaborators: Madalena Andrade, Raquel Jorge
Contractor: Modular System
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