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Architects: AUÁ arquitetos
- Area: 143 m²
- Year: 2018
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Photographs:Vinicius Assencio
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Manufacturers: Atak Serralheria, Botuloc, Cerâmica Strufaldi, Lajes Prado, Marcenaria Jeremias, Oficina 7 Netos, joão de barro
Text description provided by the architects. The Aldeia House was conceived as an attempt to converge into a single house the sometimes antagonistic demands of two people. The couple brought to the design process their concerns and expectations regarding their considerable change, not only a residential one, but also a lifestyle shift. The couple’s difficult choice to leave behind their urban lifestyle in exchange for a rural daily life has been fundamental to the definition of the architectural concept that deviated from the archetype of the countryside house to bring small doses of urbanity into the house’s routine. This attainment was possible by accessing some of the couple’s affective memories, a Portuguese and a Brazilian who lived for years in Portugal and stablished their roots in the European country. The house references the Portuguese historical villages (aldeias) that, even in mainly rural contexts, are able to stablish a kind of urban proximity between their buildings, to integrate them with the landscape and to softly adjust uneven terrains and accesses. By doing this, the Aldeia House creates small spaces of varied characteristics in a human scale and at the same time punctuates the landscape as a constructed intervention with diversity in its formal unit.
