ArchShowcase 
Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Coura House in Paredes de Coura, Portugal by Luís Peixoto, ArquitectoJanuary 23rd, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Luís Peixoto, Arquitecto The Coura House project starts from the need to rehabilitate a country house with two centuries of history, abandoned by the heirs who went on to build new houses in the surroundings. This small scale construction, now purchased to become a holiday home, featured two floors and an original functional program consisting of an animal shelter (lower floor) and a dwelling (upper floor).  Image Courtesy © Arménio Teixeira
 Image Courtesy © Arménio Teixeira The strategy for the project is based on the idea of reuse, assuring continuity to the history of the house by the functional adaptation and adjustment to contemporary domestic comfort. The intervention then seeks to preserve the architectural language of the existing building, mainly using old construction techniques of stone and wood, typical of the region.  Image Courtesy © Arménio Teixeira  Image Courtesy © Arménio Teixeira The signs of modernity arise punctually and naturally due to the inevitable functional adjustment of spaces. However, the project does not pursue to omit but rather to highlight these gestures as temporal sequence of the object. The stairs – a new element – are the maximum exponent of this intention, both for the sculptural and material quality as for the contrast of the metal with the density of the adjacent stone walls.  Image Courtesy © Arménio Teixeira  Image Courtesy © Arménio Teixeira The project preserves the forms of the building and the exterior language, marked by the texture of the stone, surgically intervened, and by the replacement of the original wooden frames with a color that fits the local tradition.  Image Courtesy © Arménio Teixeira  Image Courtesy © Arménio Teixeira  Image Courtesy © Arménio Teixeira  Image Courtesy © Arménio Teixeira  Image Courtesy © Arménio Teixeira  Image Courtesy © Arménio Teixeira  Image Courtesy © Luís Peixoto, Arquitecto  Image Courtesy © Luís Peixoto, Arquitecto  Image Courtesy © Luís Peixoto, Arquitecto  Image Courtesy © Luís Peixoto, Arquitecto  Image Courtesy © Luís Peixoto, Arquitecto  Image Courtesy © Luís Peixoto, Arquitecto  Image Courtesy © Luís Peixoto, Arquitecto
Contact Luís Peixoto, Arquitecto
Tags: Paredes de Coura, Portugal Categories: House, Residential |
|
|
|||||
|
|
|||||
|
|||||
email
Facebook
Twitter
RSS Feed
