HOUSE IN OLEIROS, SÃO PAIO DE OLEIROS – PORTUGAL, 2015

THE PROJECT CONCERNS A SMALL HOUSE IN NORTHERN PORTUGAL. THE SITE IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE TRACES OF AN AGRICULTURAL SUBDIVISION, WHICH DETERMINES A RATHER ELONGATED SHAPE OF THE PLOT.

THE PROJECT EMERGED IN RESPONSE TO THIS CONDITION AND THE NEED TO RESPECT A THREE-METER SETBACK ON ALL FOUR SIDES. A SEQUENCE OF SPACES—TWO SMALL, TWO MEDIUM, AND TWO LARGE—OCCUPIES THE ENTIRE LOT, DEFINED BY A SURROUNDING WALL. A ROOF RESTS ON THE WALLS DELIMIT THESE SPACES, THEREBY DEFINING THE HEATED PERIMETER OF THE HOUSE WITHIN THE SETBACK AREA.

EACH ROOM COMBINES AN INTERIOR AND AN EXTERIOR SPACE, SO THAT EVERY ROOM IN THE HOUSE IS SIMULTANEOUSLY INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR.