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| 1 BEDROOM TOWNHOUSE, Bom Sucesso, 2004/2009 PHASE I PROJECT: 1 BEDROOM TOWNHOUSES Plot 153 PROJECT STATUS: Built LOCATION: Óbidos – Herdade do Bom Sucesso, Design Resort, Leisure & Golf ARCHITECTURE: Madalena Cardoso de Menezes and Francisco Teixeira Bastos COORDINATION: Madalena Cardoso de Menezes PLOT AREA: 5.816 Sqm CONSTRUCTED AREA: A 900 Sqm B 720 Sqm PROJECT DATE: 2004 - 2006 CONSTRUCTION DATE: 2008 – 2009 COLABORATORS: Ana Botelho, Luís Rodrigues, Sérgio Hipólito, Sofia Silva,Sérgio Xavier (3D model) MODELLS: Ana Botelho, Hélder Laranjeira, Sérgio Hipólito STRUCTURES: Carlos Delfim, Engenharia de Estruturas, Lda. CLIENT: ACORDO – Óbidos, S.A. PHOTOGRAPHY: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG The project comprises two rows of single-family, one-bedroom duplex townhouses, A and B, set along the western side of streets A e C2, respectively. Plot 153 lies on the eastern slope of the Quinta do Bom Sucesso golf course valley. This slope descends approximately 25m, and the middle point of the access street has an elevation difference of 3m from one of the plot's boundaries and of 5m from the other. Three intentions presided over the conception of this project. First, trying to make it look as if there were a levitation of the ground on which the construction lies. Second, bringing the West into the social area of the houses. And third, maintaining the terrain's continuity from the street level to the interior of the plot. The result derived from these three premises was an inverted-duplex typology, judged to be the most favourable to this desire of framing the landscape: rooms on the entry level floor and a suite on the lower floor, with a connection to the ground. The supremacy of the upper floor's volumes, created by the cantilever disposition of the rooms, is counteracted by a segmented construction on the lower floor, allowing for continuity of the terrain under part of the ensemble. The apparent separation between ground and building, created by withdrawing the bedrooms on the lower floor, and the multiplication of façade plans facing west, both presided over all the decisions on the design of the townhouse ensembles. We strove for a sense of unity when looking at their eastern side, from the green as well as from the Hotel. Inhabitable spaces of shade were created, as a transition between the interior and the plot's exterior areas, both in the living rooms that stretch onto balconies and in the bedrooms that stretch onto yards under them. < Back to Projects |