
Casa Na Comporta
ARCHITECTS
Aires Mateus
YEAR
2010
LOCATION
Grândola, Portugal
TYPE
Residential › Private House
This project is a response to very specific conditions. Its basis is the recovery of existing wood-masonry buildings, providing the complex with a homogeneous unity under a sloping roof.
The brief suggests the renovation of the masonry buildings, adapting them for use as individual rooms, while one of the two wooden volumes is converted into a two-bedroom pavilion and the other is the pavilion for common areas.
The street entrance emerges through the sandy ground, which is used as a basis for all the constructions.
This treated material is spread as paving inside the community pavilion, qualifying the domestic conditions with a sense of natural comfort.
The textural continuity of powerful material like sand changes the scale of the interior spaces, making the act of inhabitation a unique poetic experience, fitting for the sort of experience sought for this place.


