Location: Lugar das Carvalhinhas, Alvite, freguesia de Cerva, Riberia da Pena, Vila Real, Portugal

Site Area: 1000 sqm

Construction: 180 sqm

Materials: Concrete

2000-2005

• Holiday home: 3 beds, social bath, living room, dining room, small kitchen, small outdoor swimming pool.
• Terrain: Very long, narrow. Faces south - optimal solar exposure.
• Main entrance organized based on the street.
• Southern access - rustic footpath.
• Steep typography makes fragmentation necessary.

• Small linked and interconnected volumes.

House functions are read with each elevation corresponding to a single compartment.

Roof functions also as pavement support for the gardens

• Similar to traditional threshing floors and patios in the northern regions of the country with hilly terrain.

Attempted to preserve all preexisting trees.

"Modular geometric abstraction."

House functions as:

• a home w/ interior space.
• organization of outdoor leveled patios corresponding to the roofs of various levels which permit the outdoor use of the garden.
• Creation of a pedestrian link between the paths of the upper and lower levels that border the site.

• The form of the home organizes a fundamental route which is mirroed inside and outside.
• Exterior stairs respond to interior ceiling.

House is partially buried.

Creates positive thermal behavior and security.

Exposed concrete reflects the idea of massive stones appearing naturally on the site.