Structure studio Cimbre has designed a single-storey home in rural Portugal to supply “a way of each seclusion and openness”.
Named Home in Serra, the 180-square-metre dwelling within the Arrábida Pure Park of Serra do Louroon is outlined by uncovered concrete partitions, a pyramidal zinc roof and semi-enclosed patio areas with round cutouts.
“The principle idea of the home is the seemingly unbiased relationship between the uncovered concrete partitions and the four-pitched roof that rests upon them and the way in which it creates a nuanced interior-exterior connection,” Cimbre founder João Completo advised Dezeen.
“This supplies a way of each seclusion and openness whereas guaranteeing privateness from the road to the north and the adjoining plot to the west.”
Cimbre positioned the house on the forehead of a hill to optimise views of the encompassing, protected mountain ranges.
The south-facing, rear facade has giant glazed openings, whereas a collection of semi-enclosed courtyard areas type extra non-public areas described by the studio as “out of doors areas with various ranges of intimacy”.
Breaking the regular-shaped plan, the patios outlined by round reduce outs have been added to the bedrooms and bogs to create secluded areas that body the mountainous panorama.
Adjoining to the principle bed room are a walk-in wardrobe and toilet, with twin sink and roll high bathtub, which look out onto an enclosed courtyard backyard.
To guard the house from the highway, the studio added a low boundary wall from the ruins of a constructing beforehand on the positioning.
A pared-back materials palette was used all through the inside with heat birch wooden ceilings and clean concrete partitions.
In the lounge, an announcement black metallic fire, vaulted wooden ceiling and sliding doorways with aluminum frames lead out to an exterior patio, eating space and pool.
A gallery kitchen lies beside the social residing house, off which a breakfast bar is tucked right into a semi-circle opening linking the 2 rooms.
“The lowered palette of supplies offers the home a way of coherence and connection between the areas,” defined Completo.
“The inside environment is outlined by the distinction between the roughness of the uncovered concrete partitions, which blur the boundary between inside and exterior, and the heat of the birch wooden ceilings,” he added.
“Whereas its structure is distinctly modern, it evokes the environment of a standard countryside dwelling by way of parts such because the sloped wood ceilings, the open metallic fire, and the stone masonry boundary partitions, constructed utilizing stones from the spoil that beforehand occupied the positioning.”
Different houses in Portugal not too long ago featured on Dezeen embrace a cluster of wood cabins by PIMAA Architects and a 3.5-metre-wide dwelling with curved wall by Fala Atelier.
The pictures is by Francisco Nogueira.
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