E_C House
SAMI-arquitectos
ARCHITECTS
Sami-arquitectos
CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
Unipessoal Lda, José Artur Cruz Leal
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Hugo Mendonça
WATER AND SANITATION
Paulo Jorge Almeida Oliveira
FURNITURE
Sami-arquitectos, Loja Nord
ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
Inês Vieira Da Silva, Miguel Vieira
TEAM
Bruna Silva, João Do Vale Martins, Andreia Luís, Inês Martins, Rita Maria Pinto
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Ricardo Ferro Antunes, Francisco Mendonça Santos
AWARDS
Nominated For The European Union Prize For Contemporary Architecture - Mies Van Der Rohe Award 2015,
Barcelona, 2015
YEAR
2013
LOCATION
Portugal
CATEGORY
Houses
Text description provided by architect.
A ruin was the starting point for the design of a holiday house in the island of Pico.
The project came from the will to maintain a ruin and thinking of a house that would value it, a house that could be modelled to it and take advantage at the same time, offering the most diverse and complex possibilities of living than the former typology.
Since the building is approached at the level of the covering, because of the slope of the land, we designed all the covering of the project as if they were decks, allowing to be used as sitting places or for contemplation.
The house, modelled inside the walls of stone, was designed with generous openings, for light to come inside and to contemplation of the landscape.
These openings are sometimes lined up, and sometimes not, with the former openings of the ruin, creating new frames and relations with the original limits of the house.
The project is a movement between a limit line, in stone, and the intervention volumes that are led by that same line.
But sometimes flow independently or extend, whenever the necessity of space or of a view is needed.
