Ansião, Leiria, Portugal
Category:Private Homes
Year: 2018
Architects: Bruno Dias Arquitectura
Lead Architect: Bruno Dias
Design Team: Tânia Matias and Cristiana Henriques
General Contractor: Montoconfra-Construções, Lda.
Client: Bruno Dias and Fernanda Santos
Photographers: Hugo Santos Silva
In the historic center of the village of Ansião, on a land with a slight slope, Casa Âmago arises. The land had two small houses, in a state of disrepair and without architectural quality, so the intention of how to rehabilitate was not an option. However, it would not be congruent with the surroundings, design a contemporary house without any relation to the adjoining buildings. Thus, the first visual contact with this house does not announce what is beyond the wall and the gate.
A one-story house, with a large central patio that is the motto for the development and organization of all spaces. Âmago means marrow, center, middle, focus and essential point, and this central courtyard functions as the essential point of the house.
The large house has an orthogonal layout in its organization, which contrasts with the organic layout of the roof in being traced, with circular patios. The presence of wood in most of the spaces of Casa Âmago, is related to the intention of making this house a unique and intimate space, around the essential point that is the central patio.
