The house is anchored to an interior patio with 11.5m x11.5m x 5.75m.

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Architects: Pedro Domingos arquitectos

Location: R. Santo António 36B, 2780-164 Oeiras, Portugal

Architect In Charge: Pedro Domingos

Area: 220.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: João Carmo Simões

Project Coordinator: Bruno Antão

Collaborators: Pedro Gonçalves e João Bagorro

Engineering: Fernando Rodrigues, Cristina Martinho, Mário Boucinha, João Guimarães

Landscape : Catarina Assis Pacheco

Construction Company: Manuel Mateus Frazão

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From the architect. The house is anchored to an interior patio with 11.5m x11.5m x 5.75m.The patio acts as the center of the house, an outdoor room. A space built in reference to the atmosphere of the traditional mediterranean patio, defining a place of intimacy, light and shadow.

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The house is organized around the patio, through a path from the common areas, in the south/east, to the most private rooms in the north.

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The house is lived as a continuous space without interior doors, with different heights and atmospheres in order to define its use. The central patio is the only autonomous space where th...