Adpative use

In the heart of Alentejo, we’ve found a genuine archetype of a traditional construction, overlooking a stunning landscape. Although located in a privileged location, with difficult access, the existing building, with all its potential, had it’s areas designed in a disjointed and quite confusing way. The interior spaces, including two interdependent bedrooms, took little advantage of natural light as well as the outdoor areas around the house. Fernando Guerra On the other hand, the existing garden and swimming pool, targets of recent intervention, immediately proved to be qualitative attributes, to which the project and the intervention strategy itself should enhance.   The challenge that was given to us was to reinv... More