architecture

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.