This project proposes a different perspective of architectural remodeling and expansion of a single family dwelling building and annex, consisting of two floors, located in Areosa, Viana do Castelo, northern Portugal. The land where it operates the project has a total area of 1328.31 m2. We tried to instill a different conceptual approach to the existing house, exploring new concepts and spatiality both in the internal organization of spaces reused as well as the outcome of the outer image produced.
The design of the main building had the intention to create a contemporary interior space that offers high standards of habitability and interior comfort, but simultaneously maintain the identity, language, scale and volume of the original building, improving the relationship between the indoor and outdoor spaces.
The general idea of the project begins in the existing main building which is oriented to the west toward the Atlantic Ocean, whose beauty of the landscape observed becomes mesmerizing. The granite walls of the existing building remain nearly in its original form, making it just a "cleansing" and structural maintenance, to ensure the safety of the entire architectural complex designed. Some walls stayed inside as a memory of its origin. As an element of contemporaneity, we proposed the application of a loose outer facade, a new "skin", to involve the home, copper placed vertically and fixed to a steel structure suspended on the existing facades. This "hat" copper fills, in a contemporary way, the existing thick granite walls that have been discontinued by the erosion of time and other factors. Just like a piece of "puzzle" that fits into the existing, restoring its original volume and scale, whatever the result of the transmitted image. Simultaneously, the old and the new merge, yielding a composition whose shapes adapt to the roof of existing houses in the surrounding, allowing visual continuity transmitted by architectural complex built where the project operates. Regarding landscaping, sought to recover the existing elements, such as tanks and walls, relocating them and giving them new functions. The pool and fountain designed reveal plenty of piped running water from existing mines in the vicinity. The vegetation recovers the concept orchard (area with various species of fruit trees), micro typical structure of this region backyards. In front of the house poplars were used to counter the horizontality of the buildings.
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