Article source: aires mateus 

The program includes four houses and a water tank. The water tank will be a square of whitewashed plaster where a pool is found and a line draws the shower.  The placement of the several houses will be decided by each owner.  The first house is a square. The living room is disposed around a courtyard that provides indirect lighting. Secondary compartments inhabit the interior of thick walls that form the central living room.  These areas, compressed by a lifted ground and a lowered ceiling, become spaces which group to limit and define the “exterior volume,” emphasizing it as the main space of the house.

Image Courtesy © Daniel Malhão

• Architects: aires mateus
• Project: House
• Location: Litoral Alentejano
• Photography: Daniel Malhão
  
• Colaborators: Maria Rebelo Pinto, Patrícia Marques
• Date of construction: 2000

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