House in Murtal Design by ARX Portugal

This house is located on a tough ground, of whimsical configuration and accentuated slope. In the beginning of the project the view over the Cascais’ bay was wonderful. Now there is the way a bulky urbanization known as “Jardins da Parede”.

Previously, the allotment defined the house in its volumetric and in the distribution in two separate volumes, one for inhabiting and another for parking the cars.

This project was also very much marked by the owner of the house, who gave us a strict preliminary program, a scrapbook with magazine clippings, organized by themes, as he insisted that his house would have a tiled roof. He looked around and saw every house looking like that and he wanted his to have the same roof. He also asked for it to have a porch, a pool fed by a waterfall and a profuse use of wood in the building materials, because of the comforting proprieties of this element in a home.

Designer: ARX PORTUGAL, Arquitectos Lda., Location: Murtal, Portugal, Image Credits: © FG + SG - Fotografia de Arquitectura, Information: Source