Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects
21/02/2018.
[Santarém] Portugal
metalocus, JOAQUIN MINAYA
metalocus, JOAQUIN MINAYA
Weekend retreat for a family of four located in Santarém, Portugal. Organized around an L, the house aims to combine a house with urban characteristics with a rural environment.
Exterior. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Entry. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Exterior. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Exterior. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Exterior. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Exterior. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Exterior. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Entry. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Hall. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Corridor. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Living room. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Living room. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Corridor. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Living room. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Exterior. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Exterior. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Night view. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Night view. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Night view. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Night view. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Night view. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Night view. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Photograph © José Campos
Planimetry. Ring House by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects.
The house, designed by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects, has its entire program distributed on one floor, dividing the house into three areas: a private one that contains the rooms and acts as a barrier to the north, one of service that contains the kitchen, a bathroom and a technical area and serves both entrance to the center, and a social area to the south.
Description of project by Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects
Located in Santarém (center), Portugal, the Ring House is a weekend retreat for a family of four.
In terms of concept, it was intended to create a dwelling with characteristics and urban interior finishes, that manage to integrate in the rural and more traditional context of Santarém. Designed to be a single storey dwelling and situated on top of a gentle slope, it allows a quiet and serene usufruct that derives from the privileged relation between the interior and the exterior.
The Ring House consists of three well-defined functional areas, a social area, a service area and a private area. The latter, which has a longer body with East-West orientation, acts as a barrier to the street that passes north.
This barrier allows the creation of a private social area, consisting of a terrace with swimming pool to the South. Between the Private area (to the North) and the Social area (to the South) is the Services area, which contains the main entrance of the House the East), a Kitchen, a toilet and a technical area. The L-shaped volumetric arrangement allows the separation of the exterior areas, arranging them according to the degree of privacy desired around the house.
On the East side of the House next to the entrance door, from the outside, a covered area (ring) was created to access the Entrance. This allows car parking and because it is a more exposed area, has a less private aspect. The entire area north of the house, acts as an access to the Entrance of the House (the East) and is exposed to the street. To the south, and visually protected by the volume of the sleeping area, there is the outdoor terrace with the pool, lowered relative to the interior level of the House, where it was sought with the difference clearly distinguishing the physical separation between the interior and exterior, maintaining, however, a strong visual connection.
One of the most striking elements of the architecture of the house is the long longitudinal "tear" on the North facade, which makes the natural illumination of the corridor that serves the private area of the house.
The Ring house floorplan seeks to combine the will of a family living in an urban environment, with the need for it to feel closer contact with the nature.
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Architects, Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva
Vasco Cabral + Sofia Saraiva Architects. Architects Sofia Saraiva and Vasco Cabral met in 2006 at an Architectural practice where both worked, immediately arising a great complicity and a great formal harmony. It was in 2006 that they began to design the will to create an Atelier where it was possible to follow the ideas, solutions and the ways in which they were identified. This will was achieved in 2009 with the founding of the CSAA, where not only the ideas that united them, but also the professional and ethical principles were put into practice.
