Architects: Graça Vaz & Raul Sousa Cardoso
Photographer: José Campos
Photographer: José Campos
Integrated in a hybrid residential context which crosses urban and rural
references, the mortuary house emerges as a filter between them and a universe
of contemplation of the distant mountains.
Bounded by a municipal road, a farmland and the Church of Vila Caiz, the
constructed volume results from the confluence between the axes of delimiters
ground, framing the landscape and solar orientation.
The materiality of the building integrates and filters the context in which it
operates through grilles cover crops in concrete (filter of light and views) granite
floors, walls and paneling in conjunction with the whiteness of the walls.
The interior space results mainly from three major interconnection between
spaces defined by an atrium and two rooms that can be joined or fragmented
depending on the circumstances.
The view of the distant mountains combined with the water from a tank that
strategically reflects in the slope of the roof and walls of the mortuary are factors
that catalyze an environment of neutrality, silence and introspection.
Location:Vila Caiz, Amarante, Portugal
Project Area: 110.5 m2
Year of conclusion: 2013
