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House in Martinhal, Architect, Images, Portuguese Architecture, Photo,
Design
House in Martinhal Design - Arquitetura
Residential Building - Edifícios portugueses
House in Martinhal, Portugal
2007
ARX Portugal, Architects
Photography : FG + SG - Fotografia de Arquitectura

This house is located in Sagres (Algarve), the furthest southwest
location in Portugal.
This town hosted the Navigation School behind the Portuguese
Discoveries, established in the 15th century by the infant D.
Henrique.

Five centuries have gone by and nowadays these waters are famous for
windsurfing.
Land is being split in generic parcels of typical resorts, claiming
for a superficial architectural idea of a portuguese house,
to please and sell to foreign tourists. The house was developed along
the precise regulations, defined in the urbanistic project, from distances
to borders, access and total amount of construction area and volume.
The highest and longest volume is located in the north to create an
protect a central marble patio from the strong and permanent winds.
An L shaped bedroom wing helps creating privacy from the
acess road into the pool. Inside and outside spaces are always articulated
by courtyards, a typology from the moorish legacy, while filtering
views to selected fragments of untouched landscape.

The house is white and the roofs are flat, as they where often built
in traditional architecture in this area, for drying fruits an fish,
leaving us a particular architectural heritage that turistic resorts
seem to have forgotten.
House in Martinhal images / information from ARX 060109

House in Martinhal - Building Information
Distinguished with the International Architecture Awards,
The Chicago Athenaeum, EUA, 2008
Address: Martinhal, Portugal
Project: 2002-03
Construction: 2005-07
Architecture: ARX PORTUGAL, Arquitectos Lda - Nuno Mateus, José
Mateus
Structure Engineering: SAFRE, Projectos e Estudos de Engenharia Lda
Area: 320m2
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