House in Chancelaria

House in Chancelaria
© Guilherme Blasco Augusto

HOUSE IN CHANCELARIA

co.rp arquitectos

AREA
80 m²

MANUFACTURERS
Estilos Rústicos, HJ Mobiliário, MACIÇA, Sanitana

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Diogo Menéres Pimentel & João de Oliveira Ribeiro

LOCATION
Chancelaria, Portugal

YEAR
2021

CATEGORY
Houses, Renovation, Detail

Text description provided by architect.

The house appears in the village of chancelarias’ core – once the epicenter of the daily bustle, is now ceased by the silence of the lands of Alentejo and the restlessness of the swallows that lodge in the church.

Times change but the memory remains in the intrinsic characteristics of that humble life.

House in Chancelaria
© Guilherme Blasco Augusto
House in Chancelaria
© Guilherme Blasco Augusto
House in Chancelaria
© Guilherme Blasco Augusto

The project emerges from the intention of repairing and consolidating the overlaps and fragments that have taken place in the house life course.

It is, therefore, the union of a building as ancient as the village and a second volume built in the ’50s.

House in Chancelaria
© Guilherme Blasco Augusto
House in Chancelaria
© Guilherme Blasco Augusto

Two entities were built away from each other so that people could pass and gather in their inner space.

The space where the voices of the people of the land once echoed, is now no more than a deafening void between two volumes that are intended to be filled, guaranteeing the conditions of comfort and living for the family that now inhabits the house.

House in Chancelaria
© Guilherme Blasco Augusto
House in Chancelaria
© Guilherme Blasco Augusto
House in Chancelaria
© Guilherme Blasco Augusto

It is this emptiness that becomes the heart of the house, with the role of connecting the social and private area of the house and providing a solution for the difference in elevations.

The space is intended to be considered as a whole, is it developed from the creation of a patio that serves as a hinge between spaces and a source of natural light in all spaces.

It is thus the multiple elements of the project. In the sense that with its creation, an answer to several questions necessary is provided regarding the quality of the surrounding spaces through a single intention.

House in Chancelaria
© Guilherme Blasco Augusto
House in Chancelaria
© Guilherme Blasco Augusto
House in Chancelaria
© Guilherme Blasco Augusto

It is therefore the catalyst of the intervention and the atmospheric aggregator of all spaces.

The floor, the fabric that joins the fragments of the house, is made out of terracotta as if it referred to the soil of this land.

The materials are as humble as the country life, creating collectively a harmonious synthesis of Alentejo.

House in Chancelaria
© Guilherme Blasco Augusto
House in Chancelaria
© Guilherme Blasco Augusto
House in Chancelaria
© Guilherme Blasco Augusto
House in Chancelaria
© Guilherme Blasco Augusto


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