Casa Namora is a contemporary house located in Guarda, Portugal, designed in 2022 by David Bilo.

Description
Situated in a natural shelter of a valley at the foot of the Serra da Estrela, close to the parish of Gonçalo, in a place also known locally by the name of Mora, this agricultural property has approximately 18ha of area, and is surrounded by a dense pine tree forest.
The property has been well preserved over the years thanks to its agricultural activities. At its center stands a modest pre-existence of granite built in the mid-twentieth century, from where the new project started. In order not to disrupt the farm activities, we decided to split the old from the new when designing the house. The final outcome, with the extension of the existing house, resulted from a compromise between the owner’s wishes and the existing features and morphology of the land, characterized by the existence of several terraces. In a natural way, two new volumes of concrete were created and implanted in an existing terrace, closely linked to the granite pre-existence, allowing for natural and fluid development of the local farm.
The name NaMora has a double meaning in Portuguese. It refers to the location of the project, where ?Na Mora? would translate into ?In Mora? (Mora being the place where the property lies), but ?namora? in Portuguese means literally ?flirt? or ?date?. Thus, in a place named Mora, the House NaMora was born, where the concrete v...