Two Houses in Ponte de Lima |艾德瓦尔多·苏托·德·莫拉Eduardo Souto de Moura-卓美

Luis Ferreira Alves

A very bend site.

Two houses with the same program.

Two themes to essay:

To be enveloped by the landscape, where the gave from the inside is low, leveling, imminent.
To raise of the pendent where the look is high, distant, in depth until the mountain.
Two houses, one program, two essays, that have no meaning if separated.
As F. Távora used to say in his classes: “…in architecture the opposite is also true”.

Structural consultants: Lello & Associados
Electrical consultants: Rodrigues Gomes & Associados
Mechanical consultants: Ventarco, Lda.
General contractor: Coelho Construtores (Estruturas); Empalme – Sociedade de Construções, Lda (Acabamentos)