Contemporary House in Melroeira, Ourém Residence, Portuguese Farmland Home, Architecture Interior Design
House in Ourém
Contemporary Portuguese Residence in Melroeira, Ourém ? design by Filipe Saraiva, Architect
28 Nov 2017
Contemporary House in Ourém
Design: Filipe Saraiva
Location: Melroeira, Ourém, Portugal
Geometrically shaped Residence in Ourém

The house is located on a piece of land in Ourém, characterized by its rectangular configuration, with a descending slope in the south direction (next to the public road).

The difference in height between the highest point and the lowest point is approximately 4.50m. It is a farmland with a natural landscape, facing south and overlooking the Castle of Ourém.
When we ask a child, anywhere in the world to draw a house, all of them invariably present us with a simplistic representation consisting of five lines, a rectangle and two squares.

The pentagon composed by five lines represents the walls and the roof. The rectangle is meant to represent the door and the squares, the windows.

Regardless of the culture, the architectural references of each place, or the most common concept of accommodation from that place, it shows that all the houses have characteristics that are transversal to each one of us, because we all feel that the house is like a shelter that protects us from the world that surrounds us. It is our safe haven and our own world.

This archetype is usually defined by a polygon of regular geo...