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Architects: Pitagoras Group
- Area: 12000 m²
- Year: 2009
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Photographs:Luis Ferreira
Text description provided by the architects. The project came about from the need to add 12,000 m2 of land composed of a wood of oak trees in a reasonable state, to existing housing in a 4,000 m2 plot, separated until now by a public staircase 4 m wide.
![Exterior Spaces in Guimaraes / Pitagoras Group - Forest](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5007/7517/28ba/0d41/4800/24e2/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1360747068)
It creates a new low-rise access from the road, which would become the main house entrance, eliminating the existing access made on the high land, 24 m up.
![Exterior Spaces in Guimaraes / Pitagoras Group - Garden](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5007/74f7/28ba/0d41/4800/24db/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1360747046)
It is important to treat it as a course of recreational character which crosses a large part of the land, interlinked with pedestrian paths and benefiting from the existing spring, turning water into one of the structural elements of the garden.
![Exterior Spaces in Guimaraes / Pitagoras Group - Garden, Forest](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5007/7504/28ba/0d41/4800/24de/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1360747055)
The project results from a functional and structural motivation. The concepts defining it are – idea, structure and form. The landscape and architecture are thought of as the same.
![Exterior Spaces in Guimaraes / Pitagoras Group - Garden](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5007/750e/28ba/0d41/4800/24e0/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1360747063)
Walls, slopes, ramps are planned; pathways are placed in hierarchical order; waters are directed to the new lake. The regeneration of the landscape is proposed through the constitution of an integrated system of plant beds fitting with the landscape.
![Exterior Spaces in Guimaraes / Pitagoras Group - Concrete](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5007/7512/28ba/0d41/4800/24e1/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1360747066)
Material, species, textures and remarkable colours motivated by some abstract inspiration are combined, in an area where the relationships between the natural and artificial are explored. To finish, we hope for a place which establishes empathy of communication with the senses.
![Exterior Spaces in Guimaraes / Pitagoras Group - Waterfront, Garden](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5007/74fc/28ba/0d41/4800/24dc/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1360747049)