This modern residence was adapted from an old farmhouse located in Amares, Portugal.
Topos Atelier de Arquitectura kept the intervention sparse to preserve the structure’s rustic character.
It is a 2008 project.
House in Sequeiros Topos Atelier de Arquitectura:
“To adapt this old farmhouse to a dwelling-house the only necessary intervention was to demolish the partition walls. The house’s social areas were placed in the existing volume. Only a wooden “little box” was set to screen the kitchen area.
To host the bedrooms a box unattached to the ground, coated with z – shaped corten steel profiles, was created. In a singular way, the conjunct reminds the traditional rural assemblage of the threshing-floor, granary and farmhouse, as well as a text by Alberto Campo Baeza on boxes: “Caixas, Caixinhas e Caixotes”
Photos by: Xavier Antunes
