A minimalist gabled type, cantilevered terraces and earth-toned lime plaster outline Casa Plaj, a vacation residence in Portugal designed by native apply Extrastudio.
Positioned close to a coastal village in Portugal’s Lourinhã area, the 120-square-metre house is described by the studio as a “radically easy” construction that pulls on the realm’s rural structure.
Lisbon-based Extrastudio raised Casa Plaj on 4 load-bearing concrete partitions, permitting the encompassing panorama to stream beneath its overhanging terraces, and completed it with a purposefully tough layer of earth-toned plaster.
“Lourinhã has by no means been a rich space; buildings are modest and easy, and sit naturally within the panorama, in a approach that has one way or the other been forgotten by buildings from current many years,” stated the studio.
“We wished to make a radically easy type for this home, combining parts utilized in historic native buildings in a approach that’s solely attainable within the current,” added Extrastudio.
“Free from every day obligations, a vacation home permits a sure stage of freedom and experimentation. It needs to be beneficiant, casual, bodily current, imposing its personal time and tempo.”
Above the concrete podium, which includes an entry stair, Casa Plaj is organised throughout a single stage, with a residing, eating and kitchen space to the south and three bedrooms to the north.
Flanking an entrance courtyard, which is hid behind a sliding gate of slatted timber, every of the bedrooms opens out onto a cantilevering aspect terrace through deep-set sliding glass doorways.
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The residing space sits beneath a excessive, sloping ceiling punctured by an ocular skylight, with a suspended black-steel fire at its jap finish and a marble kitchen counter reverse.
This skylight aligns with a sequence of excessive, round cut-outs within the residence’s partitions, the place of which was decided utilizing 3D modelling to permit a beam of daylight to light up every room earlier than sundown.
Casa Plaj’s eating space opens out onto a devoted cantilevering terrace, overlooking the ocean within the distance in addition to an extended, slender swimming pool within the residence’s backyard.
“Easy architectural units allow and encourage flexibility and informality,” defined the studio.
“The home windows recede fully into the partitions, remodeling the home into a big alfresco area, extending the indoors outside and permitting moments like bathing to turn out to be open-air experiences,” it added.
Inside, the tough materiality of the outside has been carried by means of into gray plaster partitions and angled ceilings with a equally tough, uneven end, complemented by easy concrete flooring.
Extrastudio was based in Lisbon in 2003. Earlier tasks by the studio embrace the transformation of a vineyard in southern Portugal right into a household residence and a delicatessen with an ornamental perforated ceiling.
The images is by Clemens Poloczek.
