תכנון בית כפרי בפורטוגל || פרויקטים

Name of the Project: Casa de Campo
Office Name: PF Architecture Studio
Completion Year: 2023
Gross Built Area [m2]: 380 m2
Project Location: Gandra, Esposende, Portugal
Lead Architects: Pedro Ferreira, Marta Reis
Team: Matheus Susano, Barbara Vasques, Ana Ribeiro, Inês Areia, Ana Ribeiro, Marta Viana
Photo Credits: João Morgado

העיר אספוסנדה ממוקמת בחוף הצפוני של פורטוגל. ארץ הים, הנהר וההרים נכבשה כבר למעלה מ-300 אלף שנה, והיא משלבת מערכות אקולוגיות ונופים תחת אותו מכנה משותף, הרוח הצפונית או כפי שהיא מכונה כאן ''נורטאדה''. Casa de Campo שתוכנן על ידי PF Architecture Studio ממוקם בקהילה החקלאית של גנדרה ונועד להיות בית למשפחה בת ארבע נפשות ועוד שניים שרצתה לברוח מחיי העיר.

The plot, with a North/South orientation, is located in a predominantly agricultural territory, corn fields that change from green to golden and where more or less vernacular farmers' houses flourish. The client desired an easy, unpretentious house that responded to the imaginary country experience, with a strong relationship with the exterior, which would age well and respectes the site. The references are clear and assumed, Inger and Johannes’s house Exner, the of Aalto´s Louis Carré house, Corrales y Molezún´s Huarte and the unmissable Távora, with Ofir's house just a stone's throw away.


Photo Credit: João Morgado


Photo Credit: João Morgado


Photo Credit: João Morgado


Photo Credit: João Morgado

Essentially the roof defines the house. A ramp plan that protects the building from southern rains and draws an L that is actually a T shape, as it defends itself from the constant North wind. Facing south and the street access, the social areas of the house welcome us, a first outdoor patio with a swimming pool, a covered porch, the entrance hall, the living room open to the South and West and the kitchen open to the south. The private areas are located on the North side of the building, although they are mostly open to the West, where a more intimate portion of the garden that surrounds the entire house develops. Taking advantage of the attic created by the inclined roof, the main suite of the house is created, which opens privately onto an outdoor patio split into the roof. Learning from the vernacular architecture of the region, the house opens to the south without exposing itself too much. It protects itself from the fierce summer sun, but allows it to enter during the coldest months of the year. With the desire to live in the countryside came a desire for communion with the environment, to which the house should not be alienated, so the choice of materials used followed this desire. The entire building has a minimal use of materials.


Photo Credit: João Morgado


Photo Credit: João Morgado


Photo Credit: João Morgado


Photo Credit: João Morgado


Photo Credit: João Morgado


Photo Credit: João Morgado


Photo Credit: João Morgado

The exterior is lined with manual brick, European Oak is the only wood used and the exterior concrete slab flooring is produced in the region. Having no ambition to make the house a statement of any kind, we do not escape the fact that all formal and constructive options are based on lessons of empirical knowledge and respect for the environment that thousands of years of vernacular construction have to teach us. Everything else is done by light and shadows, and by the experience and the free appropriation of a family that wants to be happy. As Elis Regina sang “…a house in the country Where I can be the size of peace And just be sure Of the limits of my body and nothing else…”


Photo Credit: João Morgado


Photo Credit: João Morgado


Photo Credis: João Morgado


Photo Credit: João Morgado

Photo Credit: PF Architecture Studio

Photo Credit:PF Architecture Studio