RESIDENTIAL

HOUSE IN SÃO MARTINHO

São Martinho . 2017

Design year
2017
Construction year
Not built
Location
São Martinho, Portugal
Team
Jorge Sousa Santos, Marcos Barradas
Client
Immo Portugal

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About the project

A house set on a hillside overlooking the bay of São Martinho. The project’s explicitly classical character constitutes a deliberate critical stance in response to the prevailing design of luxury houses that occupy the most desirable stretches of the Portuguese coast.

The balconies act as the defining architectural elements of the building. Their presence is structured by a repeated system of pillars which, while ensuring visual openness, confer a legible order and a recognisable architectural identity to the volume.

Porto de Mós limestone defines the entire opaque mass — walls, pillars, floors and ceilings — ensuring a unitary reading of the architectural object, free from material or formal fragmentation.