When we arrived at the plot where the clients wanted us to design a single-family house that they wanted to be unpretentious, private and timeless, we found a beautiful landscape of bucolic character.
Project name
Casa do Passadiço
Architecture firm
Paulo Merlini Architects
Location
Miramar, Portugal
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, Blender
Principal architect
Paulo Merlini
Design team
Paulo Merlini
Collaborators
P4 (Landscape)
Visualization
Paulo Merlini Architects
Typology
Residential › House
Exposed over the Alto Douro Wine Valley, a World Heritage Site in 2001, the hotel and winery emerge from the ground, extending the peak where they settle and fulfill the adjoining terraces, using a mechanism of mimetism and fusion with nature.
Project name
Douro Hotel & Winery
Architecture firm
OODA Architecture
Location
Tabuaço, Portugal
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, Physical Models, Hand Drawing
Design team
Architecture - Diogo Brito, Francisco Lencastre, José Pedro Rocha, Joana Ferreira; Landscape: Luís Paiva, Marta Paupério
Collaborators
P4 Artes e Técnicas da Paisagem (Landscape); Volta Brand Shaping Studio (Design, Branding & Communication); Eleven
Status
Concept - Design, Idea, Invited Competition, 2nd prize
Typology
Hospitality › Hotel, Winery
A 1250 sq. m house is located on a hill, on the southern coast of Portugal. The architecture, characterized by squatness and the predominance of horizontal lines, harmoniously fits into the environment, almost mimicking it.
Project name
Casa do Cabo
Architecture firm
Kerimov Architects
Tools used
SketchUp, AutoCAD, Autodesk 3ds max, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Shamsudin Kerimov
Visualization
Kerimov Architects
Typology
Residential › House
Located in the Portuguese town of Oeiras, Casa CM is an architectural response to the irregular morphology of the allotment where it is inserted. The project consisted in developing an ‘earthen-house’ that could take advantage of the characteristics and topography of the site, conserving the existing trees.
Architecture firm
OODA Architecture
Location
Oeiras, Portugal
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, Hand Drawing
Principal architect
Julião Pinto Leite
Design team
Julião Pinto Leite, Luís Choupina, Artemis Papanikolaou
Collaborators
Engineering: TEKK Engenheiros Consultores, A3R Engenharia Lda. Landscape: P4 Artes e Técnicas da Paisagem
Status
Starting Construction
Typology
Residential › House
Along the Cascais coast, on the west side of Lisboa and inside the Sintra Natural Park, a wonderful modern villa set in the typical landscape of the Portuguese Riviera was developed: the Casa da Quinta da Marinha.
Project name
Casa da Quinta da Marinha
Architecture firm
Enter Arquitectura
Location
Cascais, Portugal
Collaborators
IdealPark Srl (Car lift manufacture)
Typology
Residential › House
The idea of a vernacular architecture (forgotten) and how it seeks to form a clear speech between the landscape and the programmatic needs is something that we have always admired. A very successful example of this are the structures to support agriculture (barns / granary), which, more or less randomly, punctuate the countryside, as blocks of ephe...
Architecture firm
spaceworkers®
Location
Paredes, Portugal
Photography
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Principal architect
Henrique Marques, Rui Dinis
Design team
Rui Rodrigues, Sérgio Rocha, Daniel Neto, Vasco Giesta, José Carlos
Collaborators
Carla Duarte - cfo (finance director)
Structural engineer
aspp ENGENHEIROS, Lda
Typology
Residentialdential › House
Cabo de vila is a house for a young couple that wanted a house that doesn't look like a regular house. When we first meet the place for the house, the approach to the location give us the central mote for the project. We wanted a shape that can fill the void left by the valley and at the same time we wanted this new shape to embrace and reflects th...
Project name
Cabo de Vila House
Architecture firm
spaceworkers®
Location
Paredes, Portugal
Photography
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG, Building Pictures (video)
Principal architect
Henrique Marques, Rui Dinis
Design team
Rui Dinis, Sérgio Rocha, Rui Miguel
Collaborators
Bairro Design® (Furniture Design), Carla Duarte - cfo (finance director)
Structural engineer
ana&pedro
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, AutoCAD
Material
Concrete, glass, steel, wood
Typology
Residential › House
In a consolidated urban mesh, at the center of Ponta Delgada, the approach answers to a program of an extremely small single family house with two flights, where the lower floor accommodates a single social area, while the two small bedrooms are located at the upper floor. With only 4.20 meters at the front, with no space for urban pediatrician cir...
Project name
Windmill House
Architecture firm
BOX arquitectos
Location
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Barabara Morgado, Oscar Catarino
Interior design
BOX arquitectos
Structural engineer
SOPSEC Açores
Construction
Vicor caetano engenharia & construção, unipessoal, lda
Typology
Residential › House
