Aires Mateus and Associates

Casa Na Comporta

Casa Na Comporta

Casa na Comporta

Aires Mateus

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.

Casa Na Comporta
Casa Na Comporta

The design begins with the existing material conditions, depending on their inhabitation potential.

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.

Casa Na Comporta
Casa Na Comporta

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.

Casa Na Comporta
Casa Na Comporta
Casa Na Comporta

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.


Casa Na Comporta
Casa Na Comporta
Casa Na Comporta
Casa Na Comporta
Casa Na Comporta
Casa Na Comporta
Casa Na Comporta
Casa Na Comporta
Casa Na Comporta


Casa Na Comporta
Casa Na Comporta

Aires Mateus and Associates
T +351 213 815650
Aires Mateus and Associates
R. Cecílio de Sousa 52, 1200-102 Lisboa, Portugal