SAMI Architects studio makes a living space out of a ruin. The project is literally inserted into the remains of a stone building, so that the existing walls sometimes become a second skin and in some parts, the structure of the new dwelling. The visual link of the natural stone from the inside and the views of the Atlantic Ocean make this construction particularly attractive.

The Portuguese SAMI Architects have been one of the winners of the European Award for Intervention in the Architectural Heritage thanks to this project, in the category of intervention in the built heritage. The work presents an interesting material and formal dialogue with the existing building. The concrete enclosure, mutates by the exposure to the sea as already do the stone walls to which it is adapted. Inside, the natural wood coverings and furniture stand out, designed by the studio itself together with Loja Nord.

Description of the project by SAMI Arquitectos

A ruin was the starting point for the design of a holiday house in the island of Pico. The project came from the will to maintain a ruin and thinking of a house that would value it, a house that could be modelled to it and take advantage at the same time, offering the most diverse and complex possibilities of living than the former typology.

Since the building is approached at the level of the covering, because of the slope of the land, we designed all the covering of the project as if they were decks, allowing to be used as sitting places or for contemplation.

The house, modelled inside the walls of stone, was designed with generous openings, for light to come inside and to contemplation of the landscape. These openings are sometimes lined up, and sometimes not, with the former openings of the ruin, creating new frames and relations with the original limits of the house.

The project is a movement between a limit line, in stone, and the intervention volumes that are led by that same line, but sometimes flow independently or extend, whenever the necessity of space or of a view is needed.

CREDITS. DATA SHEET.-

Architects.- Inês Vieira da Silva. Miguel Vieira [SAMI-arquitectos].
Collaborators.- Bruna Silva, João do Vale Martins, Andreia Luís, Inês Martins, Rita Maria Pinto (Team). Ricardo Ferro Antunes and Francisco Mendonça Santos (Structural Engineering). Paulo Jorge Almeida Oliveira (Water and sanitation). Hugo Mendonça (Electrical engineering).
Mobiliario.- SAMI with Loja Nord.
Construction Company.- José Artur Cruz Leal - Unipessoal, Lda.
Location.- São Miguel Arcanjo, Pico Island, Azores, Portugal.
Dates.- 2005-07 (Project). 2010-13 (Completion).
Area.-214,00m².
Awards.- Finalists of the FAD Award 2015, Barcelona, 2015. Nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies Van Der Rohe Award 2015, Barcelona, 2015.

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SAMI-arquitectos fue fundada en 2005 por Inês Vieira da Silva y Miguel Vieira.

La oficina se ha referido, nacional e internacionalmente, por el trabajo desarrollado por equipos de jóvenes arquitectos. En este contexto, fueron incluidos en la lista de 100 jóvenes arquitectos de todo el mundo recomendados por Herzog & de Meuron en 2007 para un proyecto en Mongolia, República Popular de China.

Además de ser invitados para participar en varias exposiciones y conferencias, a saber, en Portugal, Suiza, Francia, Italia, República Checa, Alemania y España, su trabajo ha sido presentado internacionalmente en la publicaciones especializada, es decir, en la República Popular China, Corea del Norte, Portugal, España, Francia , Reino Unido, Alemania, los Países Bajos e Italia. Fue seleccionado para varios premios de la que se destaca el "Premio Unión Europea de Arquitectura Contemporánea - Mies Van Der Rohe 2007", Barcelona, ​​con el edificio "Gruta das Torres Centro de Visitantes", ubicado en la isla de Pico, Azores - Portugal.

Otros premios son: 1er Premio Tektónica / Premio Nacional OA'09, Lisboa, con "Gruta das Torres Centro de Visitantes", la isla de Pico, Azores - Portugal. Inês Vieira da Silva y Miguel Vieira wan la primera edición de este premio nacional portugués para arquitectos jóvenes menores de 35 años. Seleccionados para el "Premio Unión Europea de Arquitectura Contemporánea - Mies Van Der Rohe Award 2011", Barcelona, ​​con el edificio "CZ House" se encuentra en la isla de Pico, Azores - Portugal. En 2011 fueron finalistas de los Premios FAD en la categoría Intervenciones temporales con la exposición creativelab firmados por Tenente, Museo MUDE-Design, Lisboa, Portugal. Seleccionado en Arquitectura categoría con el Centro de Interpretación del Paisaje Patrimonio de la Humanidad, la isla de Pico, Azores, Portugal.

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Published on: June 18, 2015
Cite: "E/C House by SAMI Arquitectos" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/ec-house-sami-arquitectos> ISSN 1139-6415
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