The architect Raulino Silva has been chosen as the location for his new project in the small town of Senhora da Hora, belonging to the municipality of Matosinhos, which is located in the north of Portugal. This city has an important heritage, such as, for example, the chapels of Nossa Senhora da Hora and Nossa Senhora da Penha.

The house with its plants, characteristics of the place where it is located, as it is a residential area made up of several single-family homes. The variation of the facade presents a variation of heights made to align with the buildings on the sides.
The house presents the characteristic style of the architect Raulino Silva. On the ground floor, there is a large garage with space for two vehicles. The main room on this floor has access to both facades of the house, while the kitchen or bathroom are in the rear area.

Accompanying the secondary facade is a heated swimming pool, next to the back garden and a chill out-style space, a corner where the inhabitants of this house can relax and spend a pleasant time of leisure. In the upper part are the bedrooms, all with balconies, and another bathroom.
 

Description of project by Raulino Silva

The work is inserted in an urban land, in a residential area with several single-family houses on two floors and some buildings of collective housing. The town of Senhora da Hora has a population equivalent to a city, belongs to the municipality of Matosinhos and is very near to the city of Porto, in the north of Portugal.

Despite the generous size of the land, it was intentional to organize the house on two fronts, to allow the back to the sides of the neighboring houses. The difference in heights between the two existing houses gave rise to the variation in height on the facade to make it possible to align the three buildings.

On the lower floor facing south, we have access to the garage with two car parking spaces and the main entrance that takes us up the stairs. From the main atrium we have a connection to the room that has openings for the two facades. The kitchen, laundry and bathroom are facing the rear area. In the backyard garden we have a heated pool with a wooden deck area.

On the upper floor we have two bedrooms and an office facing the main facade, all with a balcony. The bathroom to support these spaces is located at the rear and is open to a patio. On the rear facade we have the master suite with a bathroom and dressing room. This room has a connection with the central terrace of the upper floor, which allows the western orientation of the room and also the lighting of the corridor and the stairs.

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Land area.- 678 sqm. Construction area.- 420.30 sqm.
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Project.- 2017-2018. Work.- 2018-2021.
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Cortizo.- Window frames Cor-Vision. Pando.- hood E-217. Weber.- Weberplast décor plus. Consentino.- Silestone Zeus Branco. And Tradition.- Spinning BH2. Porcelanosa.- bathtub Lounge Oval. Ribsol.- Solar breeze RK90. 
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Senhora da Hora, Matosinhos, Portugal.
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Raulino Silva, born in Vila do Conde (1981), is married and has two children. Architect at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto, he is a member of the Order of Portuguese architects No. 15294, and has had his own office in Vila do Conde since 2011.

He was a guest speaker at the conference "Current architecture, challenges for the future" at Concreta 2019, in Porto, in the "Quality" debate, organized by The Plan Magazine, in Venice, at the Architecture Conferences of the Memory Center, in Vila do Conde, at Pecha Kucha Night Porto 3, at Palacete Pinto de Leite, and at Pecha Kucha Night Lisboa 5 at the Electricity Museum - EDP Foundation.

He participated in the Bergamo Architecture Workshop, organized by the Faculty of Architecture of Milan, in the Forum Perspective Europe Venice 2017 and 2018 and in Perspective Europe Rome in 2019. The projects have already been published in the magazine Memar (Azerbaijan), Lux Life and Build Magazine (England), Trends, Vision, Preliminary projects, Kodac, Furniture in news, Architecture and life, Architecture and construction, Magazine Notícias (Portugal) and in the monographic book by Uzina Books "Raulino Silva - Portuguese architect".

The office was included in the "Yearbook of Architecture and Engineering" of 2017, 2018 and 2019, of the magazine Anteprojectos in Portugal and in the "European Architecture Top 50" of 2018 of Build magazine in England. In 2018, he won the Europe 40 Under 40 Awards from the European Center for Architecture.

In 2019, Casa Maia was part of the 50 best houses of Archdaily Brasil and Casa Argivai, the best residential projects of the Italian magazine G&G Magazine. The Apartment in Vila do Conde was distinguished in Best Project 2018, and Casas Touguinhó III and Touguinha in Best Project 2017 of the Archilovers architectural portal.

The built works have already received the following awards: IF Design Awards 2019, International Residential Architecture Awards 2019, Gold Award at Muse Design Awards 2019, Build Architecture Awards 2019, Global Future Design Award 2019, World Architecture Design Awards 2019, Design and Build Awards 2019, Leading Designers Awards 2019, Architecture Masterprize 2018, International Architecture Awards 2018, UDAD Awards 2018, Iconic Awards 2017 and Baku International Architecture Award 2015.

In 2019, he received the Medal of Merit from the city of Vila do Conde, for the Municipality of Vila do Conde.
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