- Space :
360 m²
Yr :
2022
Textual content description supplied by the architects. QBN home sits on the highest level and west restrict of the household farm, in a rural and low-density space of Viana do Castelo.
The home is surrounded by the greenery of the farm, a panorama characterised by a big number of bushes, flowers, bushes, stone masonry terraces, slate paths, granite water tanks, cultivated fields, and orchards.
The previous development, now refurbished to develop into the household home, had been a secondary constructing of the farm, beforehand used as a faculty, wine cellar, and agricultural storage, at totally different durations of its historical past. Divided into two stone masonry juxtaposed volumes: a coated however open development contiguous to the road and a two-story constructing subsequent to it.
Dealing with the road, there may be the quantity saved in a slate masonry facade, in continuity with the present exterior partitions. The Northside is completed with thermo-treated timber vertical strips to match the contiguous timber structured roof. The gable roof of the two-story constructing has been modified to the presumably unique hip roof, leading to an elevated quantity and top of the facade.
Entry to the home is made via the coated space, on the higher flooring degree, the place one finds the doorway, the workplace, and the passage to the primary quantity that hosts the frequent areas of the home and the playroom. The prevailing openings had been saved and new ones had been created in order that these reveal the colours of the tree canopies to the within of the home.
The primary house of the home is the lengthy room with a 13,5m size and a sloped ceiling. This room has totally different areas: piano space, dwelling and eating room. The eating space is highlighted by the birch plywood panels, which cowl one wall and the sliding door to entry the kitchen and proceed into one of many kitchen cupboards, marking the best way to the skin. On the decrease flooring are the personal areas of the home, 3 bedrooms and a front room with entry to the backyard.
Extra conventional options had been chosen in an try to make use of pure and recyclable supplies, resembling lime-based plaster for the facades, timber window frames, timber roof construction, flooring construction made with timber beams and stable wooden panels boards, insulated with expanded cork granules and pavements completed with Riga wooden.
The refurbishment of the QBN home aimed to enhance the dwelling situations with out detracting from the constructing’s character, holding concord with the opposite constructions of the farm and respecting its integration into the environment.
