库拉项目的出发点是需要修复一座有两个世纪历史的乡村别墅,它被继承人抛弃,在周围建造了新的房屋。这个小规模的建筑,现在被收购成为一个度假屋,有两层楼和一个原始的功能程序,包括一个动物收容所(低层)和一个住宅(高层)。

The Coura project starts from the need for rehabilitation of a country house with two centuries of history, abandoned by the heirs who built new houses in the surroundings. This small scale construction, now purchased to become a holiday home, featured two floors and an original functional program consisting of an animal shelter (lower floor) and a dwelling (upper floor).

该项目的策略是基于再利用的理念,通过对功能的调整和适应当代家庭的舒适度,使房子的历史得以延续。干预措施寻求保留现有建筑的建筑语言,主要使用该地区典型的石头和木材的古老建筑技术。

The strategy of the project is based on the idea of reuse, giving continuity to the history of the house by the functional adaptation and adjustment to contemporary domestic comfort. The intervention then seeks to preserve the architectural language of the existing building, mainly using old construction techniques of stone and wood, typical of the region.

由于不可避免的功能空间的改变,现代性的标志准时而自然地出现。然而,该项目并不追求省略,而是强调这些姿态作为对象的时间序列。楼梯–新元素–是这一意图的最大体现,无论是雕塑和材料质量,还是金属与相邻石墙的密度对比。

The signs of modernity arise punctually and naturally due to the inevitable functional spaces alteration. However, the project does not pursue to omit but rather to highlight these gestures as temporal sequence of the object. The stairs – new element – consists of the maximum exponent of this intention, both for the sculptural and material quality as for the contrast of the metal with the density of the adjacent stone walls.

该项目还保留了建筑的体量和外部语言,其标志是石头的纹理–手术干预–以及用符合当地历史的颜色替换原有的木质框架。

The project also preserves the volumes of the building and the exterior language marked by the texture of the stone – surgically intervened – and replacement of the original wooden frames with a color that fits the local history.

Architects: Luís Peixoto
Area: 1291 ft²
Year: 2017
Photographs: Arménio Teixeira
Manufacturers: Beker, Fama, Roriz, Sanitana, Victoria
City: PAREDES DE COURA
Country: Portugal