Lua Nua | DC.AD

São Teotónio / Portugal / 2019

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Lua Nua is a renovation project for a single-storey house with an area of roughly 240m2
located in São Teotónio, Odemira, Portugal. It is located in a natural area with an exceptional
landscape, which includes a lake and luxurious green vegetation.
The building was in a relatively advanced state of deterioration and required full renovation.
The solution proposed resulted from an analysis of the existing building and the aim to
conserve and enhance the building’s characteristics, while at the same time introducing the
necessary infrastructure.
The clients’ goal was to create rural holiday accommodation and build an outside swimming
pool, while taking into account the cost efficiency of the works.
The alterations inside the house involved restructuring the existing spaces. The main concept
comprised positioning the bedrooms in the north and south-facing areas and installing the
common spaces on the central east-west axis. This created a new dynamic for using the
private and public areas of the house.
Four bedrooms were put in, along with a studio, a living/dining room, a kitchen and a WC for
the shared areas. Each bedroom has its own door to the outside and all are en suite. The
partition between each bedroom and its bathroom is made by a piece of furniture. It includes
at once the bed’s headboard, two shelves and two panels providing access to the bathroom.
This piece is a crucial part of the bedrooms’ interior design, creating lighting effects,
reflections and transparencies between the two spaces. The flooring and walls lined with
microcement also extend to the floor outside, creating a sense of continuity and flow between
the spaces.
The swimming pool area was introduced following the line of the main public area of the
building and respecting the shape of the land. It is accessed via stairs that lead to a natural
platform at a level lower than the house. Its position, away from the buildings, is designed not
only to make the most of the sunlight during the day, but also to provide some seclusion in
contact with nature. The swimming pool is a dark, solid mass that contrasts with the green of
the nature around it and the whitewash of the house.
Overall, the project aimed to harmoniously integrate the existing building into the use
proposed and its surroundings, creating points that offer varying levels of privacy in an
informal, relaxed and uninhibited setting.


Architecture: DC.AD, Duarte Caldas
Use: Rural Tourism
Location: S. Teotónio, Portugal
Client: Private
Completion date: March 2019
Team: João Pedro Cavaco, Catarina Mascarenhas
Photographs: Francisco Nogueira

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    Lua Nua is a renovation project for a single-storey house with an area of roughly 240m2located in São Teotónio, Odemira, Portugal. It is located in a natural area with an exceptionallandscape, which includes a lake and luxurious green vegetation.The building was in a relatively advanced state of deterioration and required full renovation.The solution proposed resulted from an analysis of the existing building and the aim toconserve and enhance the building’s characteristics,...

    Project details
    • Year 2019
    • Work finished in 2019
    • Status Completed works
    • Type Single-family residence / Country houses/cottages / Interior Design
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