Topos Atelier de Arquitectura, Lda.

House in Quinta do Lago

House in Quinta do Lago
© Juan Rodríguez

HOUSE IN QUINTA DO LAGO

Topos Atelier de Arquitectura

MANUFACTURERS
Panoramah!®

NUMBER OF FLOORS
3 (Including Garage)

COLLABORATORS
Sofia Lima, Michael Ferreira

ENGINEER
Rafael Gonçalves, Kn - Engenharia Lda

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Jean Pierre Porcher, Margarida Oliveira, Albino Freitas

PHOTOGRAPHS
Juan Rodríguez

SITE AREA
1900 M2

AREA
800 M²

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Portugal

CATAGORY
Houses

House in Quinta do Lago
© Juan Rodríguez
House in Quinta do Lago
© Juan Rodríguez

Text description provided by architect.

Description: This project is a vacation home in Quinta do Lago overlooking the lake, the golf and the sea.

House in Quinta do Lago
© Juan Rodríguez
House in Quinta do Lago
© Juan Rodríguez

A white parallelepiped, consisting of a cropped wall of painted concrete that guides the access to the house, frames the liquid horizons views and materializes the whole implantation area authorized by the housing development regulation.

Inside the walled perimeter, as if indifferent to stay inside or outside, all the spatial organization is made up of physical and visual continuity, striving to create an ambiguity in perception and definition of the house's closed boundaries.

House in Quinta do Lago
© Juan Rodríguez
House in Quinta do Lago
© Juan Rodríguez

The image of the whitewashed houses in Algarve, the white surfaces of concrete or marble, value throughout the day the play of light and shadows.

On hot days, when the sun exaggerates, the living room opens automatically to its full height to absorb the coolness of the water garden and merge with the pool area.

House in Quinta do Lago
© Juan Rodríguez
House in Quinta do Lago
© Juan Rodríguez
House in Quinta do Lago
© Juan Rodríguez


House in Quinta do Lago
© Juan Rodríguez
House in Quinta do Lago
© Juan Rodríguez
House in Quinta do Lago
© Juan Rodríguez
House in Quinta do Lago
© Juan Rodríguez


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