Article source: ARX

The cultural meeting point joining the house owners and the architects was based on their common interest: an undoubtedly contemporary architecture, but one whose nature and final expression would also be the outcome of a research of the paradigms figuring in the traditional architecture of the region, the Alentejo.

Exterior View (Image Courtesy Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra)

• Architects: ARX Portugal, Arquitectos Lda.
• Project: House in Possanco
• Location: Herdade da Comporta, Possanco, Alcácer do Sal, Portugal
• Construction: 2008 – 09 (estimated)
• Architecture Team: ARX PORTUGAL, Arquitectos Lda., José Mateus, Nuno Mateus, With Stefano Riva
• Software used: AutoCAD

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