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Cabrela House by Orgânica Arquitectura
Lisbon studio Orgânica Arquitectura have completed a two-storey residence behind the solid stone walls of an otherwise ruined house in Sintra, Portugal.
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A wall of windows at the rear of Cabrela House overlooks a small courtyard, which is bounded by the retained stone structure.
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The new steel-framed house has a pitched roof that imitates the profile of both the existing building and the adjoining property next door.
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A living room, kitchen and work studio can be found on the ground floor, while two bedrooms are located on the storey above.
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Similar projects from the Dezeen archive include a concrete house atop stone building remains in the Swiss Alps, a Corten steel artist’s studio inserted into a ruined Victorian dovecote, and two houses where a steeply-pitched roof covers an old dry stone construction in the Spanish Pyrenees.
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Photography is by Fernando Guerra.
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Here are a few words from the architects:
Cabrela House, Sintra, Portugal
On the site we found ruins of a house waiting to be recover.
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On the interior a house emerges: we preserved the limit walls and we designed an exterior space.
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At the same time we harmonize the smalls existing volumes that follow the house next door.
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On the main floor stay the kitchen, the living room and a small studio and at first floor two bedrooms.
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Architecture: Orgânica Arquitectura (Paulo Serôdio Lopes, Teresa Serôdio Lopes, Marta Belém)
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Client: José Silva Pereira
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Area: 142m2;
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Local: Cabrela, Sintra, Portugal
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