architecture

vendredi 25 janvier 2013

The green of the golf resort and mature pine forest is

the predominant color of the house situated within a

Estreito de Camara de Lobos is situated 15km from

Funchal on Madeira. The building sits between the church

The house is located in a stretch between the sea

The principal objectives were to create distinctive areas

with different levels of privacy, visual continuity between

The idea was to build a wooden house. In order to benefit

from the characteristics of the plot, a horizontal volume with

The house was meat to fit into the rural scale of the site,

The characteristics of the land itself already give

the building great visibility and a dominant position,

The concrete, monolithic bulk is covered with
a zinc roof. On the ground level, the interior
recedes at the south and

The library stands on the campus periphery, on a narrow

parcel next to the city limits. The library’s functional

Ilhavo city library is located in a 17^th/18^th century mansion,

later transformed and demolished.