RESIDENTIAL

NEGRELHO HOUSE

Caldas da Rainha . 2025

Design year
2025
Construction year
2025
Location
Nadadouro, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Team
Jorge Sousa Santos, Diogo Urbano
Client
Vitorino Simões

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About the project

The project starts from the boundaries of an existing building, using them as the rule for the transformation of the house. The external walls are retained wherever possible, while a new pitched roof reconstructs the volume, reinterpreting an elementary geometry associated with rural buildings.

Walls and roof share the same ochre finish. The distinction between façade and roof disappears, transforming the house into a continuous, almost monolithic body whose materiality draws from the colours of the surrounding landscape.

Inside, this compact condition is contrasted by a large central space where living room, kitchen and dining area unfold without partitions. Large glazed planes extend this space towards the garden, bringing the landscape into the domestic interior.

The height of the pitched roof is partially occupied by a second level. A study overlooking the central space extends onto an exterior terrace, introducing a vertical relationship within an essentially single-storey house.

The intervention reconstructs the house from what is already there: the same footprint, a new geometry, a single material.