pinheiros bravos JOSÉ NEVES
land concrete beauty
house of the wild pines 2014-2022
Site: a small plateau on a heavily creased ridge line which visually dominates the landscape of Melides Mountain, in Alentejo, Portugal.
Program: a single open space designed for living, working, reading, playing, dancing, cooking and eating.
Client likes: exposed concrete.
Organisation: The house is located on this small plateau and is organised into three parts: 1. A 35-metre wall, 0.25m thick and 4.20m high, folded and punctured by well-placed openings, forms a kind of fortress which provides the entrance to the house, and contains the bathrooms, ample storage and three bedrooms designed as alcoves, each connected to an intimate courtyard. 2. A low pavilion-like volume contains the living room, slightly sunken in relation to the surrounding ground level and opened to the landscape in a panoramic view of 180 degrees. 3. A narrow volume connecting the bedrooms and the living room, contains the space for cooking and dining – the heart of the house. Materials: The outer walls are pigmented exposed concrete. Interior walls are either covered with lacquered wood (corridor, rooms and closets), with handmade tiles (bathrooms), or with exposed French oak (alcoves) as a kind of comfortable jacket lining. The walls of the patios are covered with painted plaster up to the ceiling height of the interior spaces. The roof is a garden terrace; together with the climbing vegetation planted along the walls of the patios, its seasonal changes and growth delicately mark the passing of time. Place: Porches control the solar incidence during the summer, while extending the living room to the surrounding garden, protected from the predominantly northeast winds given the orientation of the living room. The entrance to the house presents itself as a fortress wall, behind which are the bathrooms, storage and three bedrooms, each connected to an intimate courtyard. Passing laterally through the house one finds the living room with a near unobstructed view of the open landscape.
The wall, 35m long, 0.25m thick and 4.2m high, folded and rigorously cut out in places, shelters the inner life of this house.
atelier José Neves
Daniel Malhão
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https://www.joseneves.net
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