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- Architects: Aires Mateus
- Location: Alentejo Litoral
- Authors: Manuel Aires Mateus, Francisco Aires Mateus
- Collaborators: Maria Rebelo Pinto, Patrícia Marques
- Area: 170.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2000
- Photographs: Daniel Malhão
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From the architect. The program includes four houses and a water tank. The water tank will be a square of whitewashed plaster where a pool is found and a line draws the shower. The placement of the several houses will be decided by each owner.
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The first house is a square. The living room is disposed around a courtyard that provides indirect lighting. Secondary compartments inhabit the interior of thick walls that form the central living room.
Plan
These areas, compressed by a lifted ground and a lowered ceiling, become spaces which group to limit and define the “exterior volume,” emphasizing it as the main space of the house.
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