Casa Das Preguicosas, Coimbra Home, Portuguese Residence Project, Architecture Images
Casa Das Preguicosas in Coimbra
New Home in Portugal – design by Estudio Branco Delrio Arquitectos
26 Sep 2016
Lazy House
Architects: Estudio Branco Delrio Arquitectos
Location: Coimbra, central Portugal
Casa Das Preguicosas

The house is located in the outskirts of Coimbra, an area of single family homes in consolidation process. The plot currently enjoys a pleasant view and is a bit isolated, features that will disappear when adjacent buildings rise. Thus the house, elevated as required by the rules, is enclosed seeking one single opening with a porch to the south garden.

The house makes up for its small size by connecting spaces. It seizes the exterior of both the garden and patio, incorporating them through the continuity of the elements. The interiors follow one another, link and relate visually. Always offering distant perspectives and specific visual relations with the outside.
 
The organisation on three floors responds to the classical system of services – social areas – bedrooms, characterised by differences in light and materiality: from the cavernous basement to the overhead light that bathes the stairs and the work area adjacent to it at the top floor. The social floor isorganised around the kitchen which the owners, a couple with young children, considered the centre of their activity and their house habits.
 
 
The two larger divisions occupy opposit...