Lamego House, Northern Portuguese Building, Modern Portuguese Home, Architecture Photos
Lamego House in Douro, Northern Portugal
Contemporary Douro Residential Project, Northern Portugal – design by António Ildefonso Architect
9 Dec 2019
Lamego House
Architect: António Ildefonso Architect
Location: Lamego, Douro, Northern Portugal

The plot for Lamego House is a 70 m x 40 m rectangle with a di?erence of 5 m between high and low elevation. Starting at the low elevation, an exisSng path to the east gives access to a conSguous house to the north which was the reference to the chosen site.

It was decided to build the house against the driveway, the volume is adjusted until it slightly turns its back on anyone who arrives and the house also manages to carefully protect the view of the surrounding landscape, in this position. It is in this game of hide and seek that the surprise increases, we start wanting to climb, to understand, to arrive, to enter, to discover.
On the back of the house only the main entrance with a small porch that receives those who arrive stands out and even before entering we are completely prevented from seeing the surroundings.

If we were to ?y over the house we would realize it is an open “V” facing the landscape and the sun is to the south, which ?ts into the land without changing it and thus enhances the natural slope of the land to solve the access to the basement, the low elevaSon, where the garage is located, as well as t...