Pedro Domingos Arquitectos designed a house in a natural environment, between the coast and a Mediterranean landscape. The intention of the house is a good adaptation with its natural environment and with other houses already existing in the area.
In this house, Pedro Domingos Arquitectos uses water as the main material to define its atmosphere. A water tank rises in the central courtyard. The house consists of two levels, the entrance and the upper. The house is built with the system of popular architecture in the area.
 

Description of project by Pedro Domingos Arquitectos

The house is located in the wills of Faro, facing the valley of Agostos. An interior place protected from the coast. A landscape based on the mediterranean tradition, structured by small plots delimited by stone walls, trees, water tanks and small constructions. The house is implanted in this context embedded in the slope twinned to another existing house.

A walled patio is the central space of the house, an outside living room that contains a raised water tank.

The program of the house is organized in two levels. The entrance level: the patio, the tank, the kitchen and four bedrooms. And the upper level: the living room and the solarium. 

The house is built with an elementary system similar to local popular architecture: white concrete floors, white walls and ceilings, wooden window frames and steel sliding doors. The water containers of the house: bath tank, counters, washbasins and showers, are made in massive local stone.

The atmosphere of the house is defined by a set of spaces of light and shadow where the water is the primordial material.

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Architects
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Pedro Domingos Arquitectos. Architecture local team.- Estúdio ODS, Bruno Oliveira e Edite Borges.
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Design team
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Bruno Antão, Pedro Gonçalves, David Delgado, João Bagorro.
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Collaborators
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Structures.- ARA, Alves Rodrigues. Hydraulic.- João Guimarães. Electricity, telecommunications and avac.- Natural Works.
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Contractor
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Batisul lda
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Dates
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Year of project.- 2014/2016. Year of construction.- 20017/2018.
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Venue
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Santa Bárbara-de-Nexe, Faro. Portugal.
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Area
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250m² (house) + 700m² (landscape).
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Cost
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€330,000
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Pedro Domingos, was born in Lisbon in 1967. Degree in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of UTL, Lisbon in 1992. Collaborated with exclusivity with the architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça, between 1988 and 1997.

Constituted the partnership with Inês Lobo, between 1997 and 2002, where he developed several competitions, projects and works. Has is own studio since 2002. Taught at the University of Lusiada, between 1999 and 2007 and at University of Évora, between 2006 and 2012. Since 1997 his work is published and represented in various national and international exhibitions.

Has been appointed and distinguished in several juris and awards: Shortlist do Prémio Mies Van Der Rohe em 2017, finalista do FAD de Arquitectura em 2016, Finalista do Premio Nacional de Reabilitação Urbana em 2016, Prémio FAD de Arquitectura em 2013.

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