Mineral House | António dos Santos Barbosa

From an old house linked to an arable land in hillside comes a house, between stones, built where the soil was less productive. All that was recently constructed respects this condition. Among rocks, draw shapes and spaces, making the stone an inner landscape, a garden wall and support. This house has the virtue of integrating the inherited landscape and add to it a new experience of holidays and comfort, a clever balancing act between the pre-fabrication of structures and craftsmanship of the carpenters, stonemasons and metalworkers. The house has a wealth space in an amount of courtyards and balconies, windows and spaces, allowing affinity throughout the year: in summer, opening the house to the green, in autumn, sitting in courtyards protected from the wind, in winter seeing the water falling between the stones and in spring, using the coverages and indoor gardens. The relationship with the outside is timeless.