This dwelling project was developed with the wharf as a premise. With their usual poetry and sensibility, the Aires Mateus brothers develop two huts made of recycled wood, which were built off-site and then transported to their permanent site in a lorry. However, they are so well integrated with the Portuguese landscape that one has the feeling that they have been there since long ago...

Wood, as a material that is highly corruptible by weather, plays a fundamental role in the project of the huts, as they are totally exposed to it and therefore they will change with time. Moreover, it is a constant reference to nature, the river, the wharf and the world of sailing, establishing relations between the cabanas an the landscape.

The project is a rural refuge that allows its inhabitants to spend some time by the river, and so it has two minimum spaces: a living and cooking area and a sleeping room with a toilet. These functions interact with the slope of the roofs, a shape that responds to the archetype of a house.

Description of the proyect by Aires Mateus

The wharf is medieval and assembled with wood. Its identity is kept long beyond the material’s resistance. An identity that allows to change, to replace, keeping all the values. The project develops two spaces: one to unwind with the support of a kitchen integrated in the same material of the walls; other as a sleeping area with a small bathroom and a shower. The construction is entirely finished in reused wood, subjected to the weather that will keep on changing it. The forms, highly archetypal, are designed by the incorporation of the functions in these minute areas, and by the varied inclination of the ceilings that tension the spaces according to their function.

 

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Location.- Comporta, Grândola, Portugal.
Construction Surface.- 26m²
Architects.- Manuel e Francisco Aires Mateus.
Coordination.- Maria Rebelo Pinto.
Colaborators.- Luz Jiménez, David Carceller.
Client.- João Rodrigues.
Project date.- 2013
Construction date.- 2013
Structure.- Cenário Perfeito.
Electricity.- Cenário Perfeito.
Construtor.- Cenário Perfeito.

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Manuel Rocha Aires Mateus. Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1963. Graduates as an architect in F.A./U.T.L., Lisbon Portugal in 1986. Collaboration with architect Gonçalo Byrne since 1983. Collaboration with architect Francisco Aires Mateus since 1988.

Teacher in Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA, in 2002 and 2005. Invited teacher in Fakulteta za Arhitekturo, Universa v Ljubljani, Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2003/2004. Teacher in Accademia di Architectura,Mendrízio, Switzerland, since 2001. Professor in Universidade Autónoma, Lisbon, since 1998. Professor in Universidade Lusíada, Lisbon, since 1997. Invited for several seminars and conferences in: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, England, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and USA.

Francisco Xavier Aires Mateus. Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1964. Graduates as an architect F.A./U.T.L., Lisbon Portugal in 1987. Collaboration with architect Gonçalo Byrne since 1983. Collaboration with architect Manuel Aires Mateus since 1988.

TEACHING. Visiting professor at Oslo School of Architecture, Oslo 2009. Teacher in Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA, in 2005. Teacher at Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera Italiana, since 2001. Professor at Universidade Autónoma in Lisbon since 1998. Invited Teacher for seminaries in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Argentina, England, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Chile, Brazil, USA, Slovenia, Croatia, Canada and Japan.

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Published on: September 16, 2013
Cite: "CABANAS NO RIO by Aires Mateus" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/cabanas-no-rio-aires-mateus> ISSN 1139-6415
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