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Adega Azores Wine Company / SAMI-arquitectos in collaboration with drdh architects

Susanna Moreira — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000

A new wine cellar for the Azores Wine Company is located within the Unesco World Heritage vineyard landscape of Pico Island, one of the nine islands that form the mid-Atlantic, Azorean archipelago. In a manner not dissimilar to the island’s traditional wineries - small-scale structures located along the coast where wine was produced and family and friends were welcomed – the building combines spaces of production with those of conviviality and extended domesticity, within a single coherent form. Recalling the cloistered courtyard typologies of the religious institutions, Pico’s most significant historical structures, and the communities for whom wine was first produced, the building’s simple, geometrical volume defines a garden at its center. Enclosed by a covered perimeter, this intimate exterior space counterpoints the scale of the landscape beyond.

C/Z House / SAMI-arquitectos

Joanna Helm — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 03:00:00 +0000

This house intends to open up to the varied landscapes that can be seen from the highest point on the terrain.

E_C House / SAMI-arquitectos

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

A ruin was the starting point for the design of a holiday house in the island of Pico. The project came from the will to maintain a ruin and thinking of a house that would value it, a house that could be modelled to it and take advantage at the same time, offering the most diverse and complex possibilities of living than the former typology.

Interpretation Centre of World Heritage Landscape / SAMI-arquitectos

Victoria King — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Situated in a landscape, classified as one of Human Heritage by UNESCO, on the island of Pico in the Azores, is the rural dwelling, Solarenga (House of Cheer) long-associated with the cultivation of vines and dating back to the eighteenth century.

House C:Z / SAMI-arquitectos

Victoria King — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This house aims to overlook the various views which can be seen from the highest point of the land. Starting from a set of separate volumes and following the adaptation of the traditional architecture to the terrain, the resulting area between the four volumes was designed as a living space, the walls of which are a continuation of the exterior façades and where only glass separates the exterior from the interior space of the home.