Arx ​​portugal Arquitectos, Lda.

House in Matinhal

House in Matinhal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

HOUSE IN MATINHAL

Arx Portugal

ARCHITECTS
Arx Portugal

AREA
320.0 m2

YEAR
2007

LOCATION
Martim , Portugal

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

This house is located in Sagres (Algarve), the furthest southwest location in Portugal.

House in Matinhal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
House in Matinhal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

This town hosted the Navigation School behind the "Portuguese Discoveries", established in the 15th century by the infant D. Henrique.

Five centuries have gone by and nowadays these waters are famous for windsurfing.

House in Matinhal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
House in Matinhal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Land is being split in generic parcels of typical resorts, claiming for a superficial architectural idea of a "Portuguese house", to please and sell to foreign tourists.

The house was developed along the precise regulations, defined in the urbanistic project, from distances to borders, access and total amount of construction area and volume.

House in Matinhal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
House in Matinhal

The highest and longest volume is located in the north to create an protect a central marble patio from the strong and permanent winds.

An "L" shaped bedroom wing helps creating privacy from the access road into the pool.

House in Matinhal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
House in Matinhal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
House in Matinhal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Inside and outside spaces are always articulated by courtyards, a typology from the Moorish legacy, while filtering views to selected fragments of untouched landscape.

The house is white and the roofs are flat, as they where often built in traditional architecture in this area, for drying fruits an fish, leaving us a particular architectural heritage that touristic resorts seem to have forgotten.


House in Matinhal
House in Matinhal
House in Matinhal


House in Matinhal
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House in Matinhal


House in Matinhal
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House in Matinhal

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