Hypostyle House / Miguel Marcelino

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Pedrógão Grande, Portugal
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© Archive Miguel Marcelino (photo by Lourenço T. Abreu)

Text description provided by the architects. In a rural area in Pedrógão Grande, our client bought, in early 2017, a beautiful green plot of land with some ruined buildings. In June of that year, a fire of devastating proportions destroyed the flora of the land and the surrounding area. This dramatic change of the landscape, in turn, made very clear the topography tamed by a system of terraces, bringing to mind the Douro wine region or, further away, the Inca agricultural terraces in Peru.

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© Archive Miguel Marcelino (photo by Lourenço T. Abreu)
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Plan
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© Archive Miguel Marcelino (photo by Lourenço T. Abreu)

It became clear that the project should recover and lie on these terraces. And the feeling that topography did not call for a traditional house, from an archetypal point of view, but rather something more undefined, like an inhabited structure. The solution was an abstract construction made of countless columns arranged in an irregular mesh of variable density – a hypostyle structure – seeking to achieve at the same time spatial fluidity and three-dimensional filtering between private spaces and the exterior landscape. 

Hypostyle House / Miguel Marcelino - Interior Photography, Column
© Archive Miguel Marcelino (photo by Lourenço T. Abreu)
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Five years later, the surroundings are green again and the new structure now also becomes part of this built landscape system.

Hypostyle House / Miguel Marcelino - Exterior Photography, Windows, Facade
© Archive Miguel Marcelino (photo by Lourenço T. Abreu)

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Cite: "Hypostyle House / Miguel Marcelino" [Casa Hipóstila / Miguel Marcelino] 05 Oct 2023. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1007717/hypostyle-house-miguel-marcelino> ISSN 0719-8884

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