Portuguese architect Duarte Pape has recently completed a single family house in Mação, northwestern Portugal. The project renovates and amplifies a pre-existing vernacular structure, giving it a decidedly contemporary nature.
The pre-existing construction, distributed over two floors, harbours the private areas of the house — bedrooms and bathrooms —, and the renovation sought to give way to traditional construction techniques, allowing a humble architectural vocabulary to shine through.
Duarte Pape: House in Vale da Abelha
In a village in northwestern Portugal, a single family house effectively combines vernacular traits with contemporary strokes, culminating in a striking wood façade.
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- 20 May 2013
- Mação, Portugal
The new volume harbours the house's living spaces, as well as the kitchen and all transition areas. Here, a contemporary architectural language seeks the best possible landscape framework and orientation, seeking to maximise sunlight exposure, and allowing a close relationship between interior and exterior spaces.
Pape has chosen wood as the main façade material, seeking to attain a minimal visual impact and a successful integration with the surroundings.
Duarte Pape: House in Vale da Abelha
Architect: Duarte Pape
Location: Mação, Portugal
Engineering: Eng. Francisco Domingos
Area: 200 square metres
Completion: 2012
Photography: Francisco Nogueira