12-14,
South
Casa no tempo
It all began with the recovery of a house to consolidate its foundations due to a problem with capillary moisture, then developed into a proposal of an extension intervention. A proposal that emerges from an understanding of the relationships with the time.
The first is obviously a recovery or re-thinking of the idea of what traditional architecture means... we think there is a surprising thing in this type of traditional building systems, where time lies in the thickness of the walls. Therefore a restoration that is not evocative, but instead comes from the idea of building space using thickness.
The second relationship is the idea of materiality, authenticity, and has to do with experiences... It is about what people know, that could be recognised through tactile, about our memory. In this sense the intervention consists more in recovering, using and maintaining while performing the necessary technical and climatic improvements.
The third element involved is the consideration of how to live in contemporary times; how an existing house intended for domestic space and agricultural use, would be transformed into a holiday home, and consequently how recovering the domestic scale of the space.
Changing the way of experiencing and living, through the creation of an outdoor spatial sequence, elements dropped into the landscape, an outside space extension in terms of material, a square anchored into the landscape, drawing on the territory of a beach as the topography for water.
