In Delgada, a hamlet located 75 kilometers from Lisbon, Camarim arquitectos has been commissioned a swimming poolas an addition to a single-family residence. The wide area that includes the building and the newly-built swimming pool covers a surface of almost 8,000 sqm. The structure conceived by Camarim arquitectos is parallel to the existing building and consists of a slab of concrete hosting a pool and a pergola.
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The architects commented “we intuitively rejected any idea of dialogue with this house, but it would have not been convenient for the pergola to be too far from it;” the addition has been therefore conceived as independent from both a compositional and aesthetic perspective. The austere – almost archaic – structure has been built in raw concrete while the pink marble cladding of the pool gives the composition a polished twist. The slab, the pool and the pergola arrange a firm and assertive composition that imposes to the topography of the site between the trees surrounding it.
- Project:
- Delgada 1
- Location:
- Delgada, Bombarral, Portugal
- Program:
- swimming pool
- Architect:
- Camarim Arquitectos
- Project architects:
- Vasco Correia, Patrícia Sousa
- Collaborators:
- Sebastien Alfaiate, Joana Ramos
- Area:
- 136 sqm
- Completion:
- 2016