Location Ribeira Grande, ilha de S.Miguel, Açores
Total built area 300m²
Client Private
The Casa CG aims to be an architectural object that relates to the surrounding environment in order to take advantage of the rural characteristics of the landscape, placing the construction in such a way as to guarantee a reasonable distance from the public road and simultaneously allow for a large protected outdoor area. The decision to build the house with its back to the north was based on the need to enhance solar exposure, creating a landscaped, open area that surrounds it, especially to the south, where the swimming pool is located.
With regard to the architectural concept, we designed a house implanted on a generally rectangular flat base and with a horizontal layout. Therefore, we placed the living spaces on a single floor, where the bedrooms are located further north and the leisure and work areas are located to the south. All intimate, leisure and work areas face the garden. The volume does not visually interfere with the existing street profile, nor is it ostentatious.
The most striking visual elements are the exterior vertical planes and the canopies, which are strongly horizontal. Their intersections produce light-shadow effects that stimulate life in the house. The materials, such as ipê wood, the walls with marmorino-type mineral lime coating, and the boundary walls in dry basalt stone laid by hand, create a vernacular feel with a sense of place that is simultaneously differentiating and contemporary.
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