Pedevilla Architects

Villa Pernoi

Villa Pernoi

Villa Pernoi

Mario Martins Atelier

STATUS
Built

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Lagos, Portugal

CATEGORY
Residential › Private House

Villa Pernoi is situated on a large plot, facing east and south.

Villa Pernoi
Villa Pernoi

The view becomes immersed in the intense green of the surrounding area, in the wide sweeping bay of Lagos and in the changing tides of the Alvor estuary.

The client’s specifications, the topography and the extensive views needed an organic design to take advantage of the different points of interest, of the scale of the surroundings and the connection with the place where the house is built.

Villa Pernoi
Villa Pernoi

An open space lets the garden go through the house, giving it a garden patio.

It is the negative of a volume, a non-space, or a void, without any other use.

Villa Pernoi
Villa Pernoi

This patio serves to organize the views and to give the house the sense that it holds it together.

The clean angular lines leading from this patio establish the best connection with the lines and scale of the surrounding land.

Villa Pernoi
Villa Pernoi

Moreover, the relationship of the house with its natural material, travertine limestone which covers its entire lower floor, is also evident.

It simultaneously lessens the scale of the building, nestling it in the ground and visually loosening the white of the upper floor.

Villa Pernoi
Villa Pernoi

The upper floor floats over the garden, as does the walkway that gives direct access.

This is the floor where the living room, kitchen and adjoining terraces coexist in a spacious area, with different views and atmospheres.

The two largest bedrooms, with private patios, are in a more secluded part of the house.

Villa Pernoi
Villa Pernoi

On the lower floor, which serves as a basement, are the other bedrooms and also support areas for the running of the house.

On this level, the long rectangular swimming pool appears in the middle of the garden.

Villa Pernoi
Villa Pernoi

The house wants to be discreet, quietly settled in its place.


Villa Pernoi
Villa Pernoi
Villa Pernoi
Villa Pernoi
Villa Pernoi
Villa Pernoi
Villa Pernoi
Villa Pernoi
Villa Pernoi

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