House in Sequeiros

Amares Municipality, Portugal
Photo © Xavier Antunes
Photo © Xavier Antunes
Photo © Xavier Antunes
Photo © Xavier Antunes
Photo © Xavier Antunes
Photo © Xavier Antunes
Photo © Xavier Antunes
Photo © Xavier Antunes
Photo © Xavier Antunes
Photo © Xavier Antunes
Architects
Topos Atelier de Arquitectura
Location
Estr. Nacional 205-3, 4720 Amares Municipality, Portugal
Year
2008

To adapt this old farmhouse to a dwelling-house the only necessary intervention was to demolish the partition walls. The house’s social areas were placed in the existing volume. Only a wooden “little box” was set to screen the kitchen area. To host the bedrooms a box unattached to the ground, coated with z - shaped corten steel profiles, was created.

In a singular way, the conjunct reminds the traditional rural assemblage of the threshing-floor, granary and farmhouse, as well as a text by Alberto Campo Baeza on boxes: “Caixas, Caixinhas e Caixotes”.

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