Caldas da Rainha House

The house is designed around a courtyard and is involved by a stone shelf that intentionally encloses the interior from the exterior entrance area of the plot, opening it through large window surfaces onto nature surroundings.

The program is articulated in a functional sequence that scrolls the house geometry in a “U” shape. Starting from the left wing, where the private area of the rooms is, its shifts to a public central area of the living room, and then to right wing where the service areas are concentrated (kitchen, toilet, laundry), being separated from the dining room by a staircase to the under floor.

The rational geometry of the project reinterprets the typology of the Portuguese convents with a contemporary language and functional spatiality that approaches the project to the site’s natural specificities.

Roof

First floor

Underground floor

Sections

North elevation

West elevation

East elevation

South elevation