Rural community oven transformed into Portuguese holiday home
HBG Architects has converted an old granite community oven in east Portugal into a small holiday home, featuring a staircase with steps that double as a table, bench and fireplace.
The small building, now named Rural House in Portugal, is located in the village of Aldeia de João Pires and has been owned by the client's family for a number of decades. It was formerly used as a place where locals could pay to bake their bread dough.
After remaining unused for more than half a century, HBG Architects overhauled the building to transform it into a holiday home and space for the owner's family to gather.
"Located in a small, well-preserved village in the rural centre of Portugal, the house, as many others around it, was closed and unused for more than half a century," explained Lisbon studio HBG Architects. "The brief was to transform an ancient community oven, owned by the client?s family for decades, into a comfortable, single bedroom vacation house, with space to gather the family when needed," it added.
HBG Architects' residential conversion retains the community oven's original gable roof and rough, bush-hammered granite facade in an effort to ensure it still complements the local vernacular.
The changes to its exterior are only evident where the ruined porch has been restored and new red windows and wooden doors added to the facade.
Inside the granite walls are left exposed to contrast with the contemporary interiors, which are dominated by a materi...
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