The house designed by Bak Gordon Architects has lime mortar cladding inside and out and cork insulation on the exterior. These features allow it to retain the color and texture of the cladding typical of local houses in all rooms.
The project is defined by the different scales and nuances generating a set that is transformed into a naturally warm place, the design asserts its artificial condition, while seeking a harmonious dialogue with the landscape, with its geography, its historical and cultural trajectory in south-central Portugal.
The project is defined by the different scales and nuances generating a set that is transformed into a naturally warm place, the design asserts its artificial condition, while seeking a harmonious dialogue with the landscape, with its geography, its historical and cultural trajectory in south-central Portugal.
Description of project by Bak Gordon Arquitectos
Built in the vast territory of Alentejo, the house emerges from the figure of an extensive water tank attached to a wall, facing south, as if it was a resonance box of the entire landscape. On the other side of the wall the social spaces and two fresco rooms are kept, places of transition between interior and exterior, considered as foundational for the daily life of the house. It is around the small interior patio that different private areas gravitate.
The house is totally lined with lime mortar and insulated with cork from the outside. The shape and geometry of spaces, and the insightful openings, together with the immersion in this materiality, bring a sensorial sense which is difficult to recognize from images.
