SAMI Arquitectos > EC house

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Photo: Paulo Catrica

The ruin was a rural house made of basalt stone dating from the XVIII century. The project came from the will to maintain the ruin and thinking of a house that would value it and take advantage at the same time, offering the most diverse and complex possibilities of living than the former typology.

The old house was small and had few and little windows and the balcony was the only exterior space allowing contemplation.

We wanted the new interior and exterior spaces to create an intense relation with the landscape, allowing more views and more natural light in it’s interiors.

In a way we kept the same typology of the old house leaving social areas in the upper floor, with beautiful views towards the exterior and placing bedrooms in the ground floor where the views are all towards the interior of the plot, towards a more intimate landscape.

The openings are sometimes lined up, and sometimes not, with the former openings of the ruin, creating new frames and relations with the original limits of the house.

Since the building is approached at the level of the covering, because of the slope of the land, we designed all the roofs as if they were decks, allowing to be used as sitting places or for contemplation.

Concrete and stone can old with the same quality and serenity absorbing hard climate conditions and transforming it into beautiful textures. We wanted them to became almost the same element so that this house could feel like still belonging to this landscape.

The project is a movement between a limit line, in stone and concrete, and the volumes that are led by that same line, but sometimes flow independently or extend, whenever the necessity of space, light or of a view is needed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project

E/C House

Location

São Miguel Arcanjo, Pico Island, Azores, Portugal

Gross Area

214,00m2

Dates

Project 2005-2007
Completion 2010-2013

Architects
Inês Vieira da Silva. Miguel Vieira [SAMI-arquitectos]

Team
Bruna Silva, João do Vale Martins, Andreia Luís, Inês Martins, Rita Maria Pinto

Trainee
Daniel Mentech

Structural Engineering
Eng. Ricardo Ferro Antunes e Eng. Francisco Mendonça Santos

Water and Sanitation
Eng. Paulo Jorge Almeida Oliveira

Electrical Engineering
Eng. Hugo Mendonça

Construction Company
José Artur Cruz Leal – Unipessoal, Lda

Furniture
SAMI with Loja Nord

Photography
Paulo Catrica

Awards
Winner – European Award Architectural Heritage AADIPA, Barcelona, Spain, 2015
Finalists – FAD Award 2015, Barcelona, Spain, 2015
Nominated – European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies Van Der Rohe Award
2015, Barcelona, Spain, 2015

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