ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/110565/w-house-joao-cassiano-santos Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Andrew Rosenberg https://www.archdaily.com/110565/w-house-joao-cassiano-santos “There is a crudeness in Portuguese fairy tails, they are de best” – Paula Rego. There is also crudeness in Portuguese popular architecture, reaffirmed by this work. Located half hill there was a house to reuse. The addition of a living / dining room and a kitchen was made extending the silhouette along the horizontal lines of ridge and eaves.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/107586/casa-s-joao-cassiano-santos Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Nico Saieh https://www.archdaily.com/107586/casa-s-joao-cassiano-santos The surrounding atmosphere is not the gentle countryside, but the bush, dense of rockroses and sparse cork trees. The white house on top of the hill is an opposition to such harsh atmosphere, on a dominating attitude, just like the traditional archetypal “monte alentejano”.

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