CNLL Architects | Espinho

Padre Botte House

Padre Botte House
© Marcos Oliveira

PADRE BOTTE HOUSE

Cnll

CATEGORY
Houses

YEAR
2003

AREA
338.0 m²

LOCATION
Nogueira Da Regedoura, Portugal

ARCHITECTURE COORDINATOR
Nuno Lacerda Lopes

ARCHITECT
Cnll

LOT AREA
1.765 m2

CLIENT
Padre Gonçalo Botte

PHOTOGRAPHS
Marcos Oliveira

ARCHITECTURE COLLABORATORS
CNLL Augusto Rachão, Ana Viana, Maria João Venâncio

Text description provided by architect.

The programme defined the construction of a single family house on land.

Padre Botte House
© Marcos Oliveira
Padre Botte House
© Marcos Oliveira

Which had an old par­ish house facing a narrow street and a large area with some fruit trees behind it.

First the trees, then the living space, followed by the unusual appropriation and demands of a space for a cultured and determined priest were the motivations behind this design solution.

Padre Botte House
© Marcos Oliveira
Padre Botte House
© Marcos Oliveira

There is no place for representation, nor is any axis mundi developed here; structure is merely giv­en to thoughts on the past and the future.

Old and new dreams about ways of living are ordered and recreated, so that privacy and comfort.

Opacity and transparency, horizontality and vertical­ity, the exterior and the interior, shadow and light, can converse.

Padre Botte House
© Marcos Oliveira
Padre Botte House
© Marcos Oliveira

Two overlapping bodies define the rules of the house, the cardus and decumanus axes organ­ise the experience and emotion that must exist within. Outside, the bodies have pure geometric forms, without windows “where you can’t see the landscape”,

Padre Botte House
© Marcos Oliveira
Padre Botte House
© Marcos Oliveira

They create a game where the only rule is simply to create surprise at the concept of living that is proposed and stimulated.

Padre Botte House
© Marcos Oliveira


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