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House in Grândola, Setúbal
Portuguese Residential Building design by ARX Portugal architects
9 Feb 2010
Grândola, Setúbal District, Portugal
Date built: 2001
Design: ARX Portugal, Architects
Images © DMF, Lisbon (Rights Reserved)
House in Grândola, Portugal
Grândola, the place for which we designed this project is a town we have always loved. Our grandparents and our mother were born here and we always go back there with siblings in the summer. Although the town has fine and abundant specimens of popular Alentejo architecture, the allotment where the House in Grândola is grounded is recent and peripheral, its urbanization is dense and most of it is pretentious and displaced.
The owners, Ângela e Carlos go far back to our childhood long-lasting friendships.
The project evolved naturally, progressively, in short but strong steps. We started out from a frame of quite restrict programmatic data: number of rooms, living-room, kitchen, respective areas.
Alongside all this, a recurring and assuring suggestion transferring the doubt onto the architect: “make like you were making your own”.
We intended the exterior of the house to be simple and precise: compact, partially introverted, and assuring privacy in an area characterized by the close proximity of other buildings.
The house deals with the surroundings with both a circumstantial “mistrust” and a circumstantial “empathy”. From the traditional Alentejo architecture, besides the solid white volume, it retains only some traces or topics. If weight and tectonic sense impose themselves, lightness and delicateness disappear. In the interior one finds the patio, an “absent” cube, both exterior and the centre of the house.
Unexpectedly, one finds light, warmth, comfort, privacy, space and the transparency that the small and opaque outside volume seems to hide.
House in Grândola – Building Information
Address: Grândola, Portugal
Project: 1999
Construction: 2000-01
Architecture: ARX PORTUGAL, Arquitectos Lda. – José Mateus, Nuno Mateus
Work Team: Paulo Rocha, Isabel Gorjão Henriques
Gross Construction Area: 220 m2
Photography: Daniel Malhão, © DMF, Lisbon (Rights Reserved)
House in Grândola images / information from ARX 090210
Location: Grândola, Setúbal District, Portugal, southwestern Europe
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