Timber walls disguise secret spaces within tiny Pavilion House in Portugal - architecture and design

Timber walls disguise secret spaces within tiny Pavilion House in Portugal



Andreia Garcia Architectural Affairs and Diogo Aguiar Studio have hidden a bathroom, bed and kitchen within the walls of this timber-clad holiday home in Guimarães, Portugal.
Located on a mountainside between vineyards and a forest, Pavilion House is a single, timber-lined room punctured with large windows.

Its minimal design was developed by Andreia Garcia Architectural Affairs and Diogo Aguiar Studio to take advantage of its proximity to nature.
"Pavilion House is a guesthouse. The only true requirement was to emphasise the sense of recollection in the forest, a refuge from urbanity," Portuguese architect Diogo Aguiar told Dezeen.
"The idea of creating ??a log cabin was behind all the project decisions ? it is a wooden minimal house in the mountain."
The holiday home's main living room doubles up as a sleeping area with a fold-out bed. A kitchen, which can be concealed behind bi-fold doors, and storage is also incorporated into the room's walls.
A small bathroom, which is topped with a skylight, is also hidden away within the walls.

Pavilion House's form evolved from the granite wine cellar on which it sits. While restricting its floor plan, the stone structure also elevates the house to maximise its views of the landscape.

The internal configuration responds to these outward views, orientated around four large windows that look onto to different parts of the landscape.

"We wanted to create a strong relationship with the surrounding nature,&...
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