Carlos Castanheira Architects

Barrocas Pavilion

Barrocas Pavilion 

Carlos Castanheira

Barrocas Pavilion
© Fernando Guerra FG+SG

DESIGN TEAM
Sara Pinto, Fernanda Sá

LEAD ARCHITECT
Carlos Castanheira

ENGINEERING
HDP- Construction and Engineering Projects, Lda

PROJECT ARCHITECT
João Figueiredo

AREA
436 m²

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Portugal

CATEGORY
Pavilion, Houses

Barrocas Pavilion
© Fernando Guerra FG+SG
Barrocas Pavilion
© Fernando Guerra FG+SG
Barrocas Pavilion
© Fernando Guerra FG+SG

Text description provided by architect.

The Pavilion is a fait-divers. Being an Architect brings along this kind of thing.

To find a client looking for something that’s not the usual. What luck! Something that’s built with the passing of time.

Barrocas Pavilion
© Fernando Guerra FG+SG
Barrocas Pavilion
© Fernando Guerra FG+SG

It had to be isolated. Music with no restrictions. Books, lots of books. A room for to house a passion for model trains.

A small gym. I brought up this small volume at the highest point of the property.

It levitates, as if something strange was there about to land. Or to take off? There, in the midst of scots pine.

A large space and two small ones, house the requirements of the brief. Windows and terraces let in – selectively - the most amazing and never-the-same landscapes.

Barrocas Pavilion
© Fernando Guerra FG+SG
Barrocas Pavilion
© Fernando Guerra FG+SG

The smallest space becomes enormous, as it receives furniture, books, objects, sounds systems, machinery and… a surprising and passionate construction of model trains, with its own hills and mountains, stations and villages.

All that’s needed to enchant just about anyone. It is a mixed type of construction with a language - or morphology- that’s intended to be different from that of the housing complex. It is there, isolated, levitating and ready to go…dreaming.

Barrocas Pavilion
© Fernando Guerra FG+SG


Barrocas Pavilion
© Fernando Guerra FG+SG
Barrocas Pavilion
© Fernando Guerra FG+SG
Barrocas Pavilion
© Fernando Guerra FG+SG
Barrocas Pavilion
© Fernando Guerra FG+SG


Barrocas Pavilion
Existent plan
Barrocas Pavilion
Planta - Proposta


Barrocas Pavilion
Planta, cortes e elevações

Carlos Castanheira Architects
T +351 223 704910 M +351 917 890709
Carlos Castanheira Architects
R. do Conselheiro Veloso da Cruz 61, 4400-094 Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal