The house was built on a land about 115m above sea level with na impressive view over the Bay of Funchal, located in a densely urbanized residential area. Before, there was a stone masonry house with a hiproofand extensions covered with zinc, and also a wooden annex. Both in a highs tate of degradation.
The placement of the house respects the orientation of the neighbors and privileges the South and East exposure. It materializes in two overlapping parallelepiped volumes, with the upper part projecting partially on the lower part in order to generate shadow. It therefore develops on two open floors and one in the basement. There are two accesses: the car at the basement level and the pedestrian at the groundfloor level. The interior circulations paces are concentrated to the North of the house.
Program distribution is common. On the basement floor there is the garage, a toilet, a storage space and a workshop. Two lanterns to the North bring light and air to the garage.
On the groundfloor are the leisure áreas such as the livingroom, dining room and kitchen in open space, a toilet, a storage space and the laundry room. The entire South façade is torn by large Windows shaded from the outside by slatted wooden cambula panels in a harmonic system. The slatted panels extend in part, fixed, for the Eastand West facades. The staircase to the upper floor is accompanied, on the landings, by windows to the North.
And on the top floor are two bedrooms, a toilet and a suite. Along the South façade there is a large balcony that runs through the three bedrooms and large Windows that partially bend towards the East façade.
On the South exterior wall there is a glass balcony so that you can see the landscape from inside the house. The garden surrounding the house has na olive tree planted next to the pedestrian entrance, flowers and shrubs along the East wall and aromatic herbs to the North.
