Photos: João Morgado

Photos: João Morgado

Photos: João Morgado

Photos: João Morgado

The project aims to establish a connection between the building of the “Clubhouse” and the entire settlement. The meeting of these two languages results in two overlapped volumes. A basement, lined in iron and schist, houses the reception, the bar, a banquet room … A box contains 40 rooms, consisting of shutters and vertical planes,..

This house was built in accordance with the pre-existent farm buildings’ implantation and orientation. The aim was to explore two autonomous construction methods by confronting and intercepting them: – One uses the existing granite walls from the farmhouse, its windows and doors stonemasonry, to shelter the entrance garden and house work areas. – The other,..

The Municipal Plan of Póvoa de Varzim reflects the desire to channel the city’s growth phenomena, consolidating, reformulating and closing the urban front, setting limits and identifiable forms, capable of countering the uncontrolled development of the periphery. The aim would therefore be a unitary re-classification of the city’s radio-concentric image. The realization of the limits..

PhotoS: Juan Rodríguez

On the site, a extremely inclined wall of schist, a staircase and a ruin overrun by vegetation… In the distance, an old farmhouse overlooking the valley of Lima River, between Mount Madalena and the town of Ponte de Lima. Around, a golf course under construction. The ruin is for the “Clubhouse”… Overcoming the stereotype image..