The project of Rio Mau 2 House was designed by the architect Raulino Silva in Vila do Conde, a coastal municipality in the metropolitan area of Porto dominated by a country atmosphere in the north of Portugal.

The agricultural area where it is located will determine the design of the project, where the main attribute will be the simplicity and the elegant treatment of the white color both in the facade and in the interior finishes.
Architect Raulino Silva plays with the orientation, with the entrance on the east side. He will open the gaps in the facade to the garden on the south side with permeable spaces with large windows while he will close the west-facing facades with some opaque fronts.

Simplicity is not only reduced to the treatment of the material and the color but to the geometry used, the program is set on a single level with a flat roof and prismatic spaces with a garden that extends like a large green carpet with a rectangular pool.

 

Description of project by Raulino Silva

The house is located in Vila do Conde, in a rural territory with several fields of cultivation and some eucalyptus, in the north of Portugal.

The land is quite long, however the implantation of the house had to comply with the 35 meters spacing from the street defined by the Municipal Master Plan.

Entrance to the house is performed by the eastern side, and most areas are facing the side garden and swimming pool, oriented to the West.

The program requested three rooms, one of which is a suite with dressing room and the other two are supported by a bathroom, a small office, a living and a dining room, the kitchen, a toilet, a garage for two cars and a laundry.

The interior spaces through the large glass windows extend over the external floors and embrace the garden and the pool. The suite's bathroom opens onto a patio and the other two bathrooms have skylights.

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Vila do Conde, Portugal.
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Raulino Silva, born in Vila do Conde (1981), is married and has two children. Architect at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto, he is a member of the Order of Portuguese architects No. 15294, and has had his own office in Vila do Conde since 2011.

He was a guest speaker at the conference "Current architecture, challenges for the future" at Concreta 2019, in Porto, in the "Quality" debate, organized by The Plan Magazine, in Venice, at the Architecture Conferences of the Memory Center, in Vila do Conde, at Pecha Kucha Night Porto 3, at Palacete Pinto de Leite, and at Pecha Kucha Night Lisboa 5 at the Electricity Museum - EDP Foundation.

He participated in the Bergamo Architecture Workshop, organized by the Faculty of Architecture of Milan, in the Forum Perspective Europe Venice 2017 and 2018 and in Perspective Europe Rome in 2019. The projects have already been published in the magazine Memar (Azerbaijan), Lux Life and Build Magazine (England), Trends, Vision, Preliminary projects, Kodac, Furniture in news, Architecture and life, Architecture and construction, Magazine Notícias (Portugal) and in the monographic book by Uzina Books "Raulino Silva - Portuguese architect".

The office was included in the "Yearbook of Architecture and Engineering" of 2017, 2018 and 2019, of the magazine Anteprojectos in Portugal and in the "European Architecture Top 50" of 2018 of Build magazine in England. In 2018, he won the Europe 40 Under 40 Awards from the European Center for Architecture.

In 2019, Casa Maia was part of the 50 best houses of Archdaily Brasil and Casa Argivai, the best residential projects of the Italian magazine G&G Magazine. The Apartment in Vila do Conde was distinguished in Best Project 2018, and Casas Touguinhó III and Touguinha in Best Project 2017 of the Archilovers architectural portal.

The built works have already received the following awards: IF Design Awards 2019, International Residential Architecture Awards 2019, Gold Award at Muse Design Awards 2019, Build Architecture Awards 2019, Global Future Design Award 2019, World Architecture Design Awards 2019, Design and Build Awards 2019, Leading Designers Awards 2019, Architecture Masterprize 2018, International Architecture Awards 2018, UDAD Awards 2018, Iconic Awards 2017 and Baku International Architecture Award 2015.

In 2019, he received the Medal of Merit from the city of Vila do Conde, for the Municipality of Vila do Conde.
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