这座小房子位于杜罗河谷Mesão Frio的Quinta da Boavista的入口处，坐落在一个由人类几个世纪以来为生产葡萄酒而改变的戏剧性景观中。它是看守人的住所，也是一项干预措施的第一阶段，将扩大和翻新现有的农业和旅游业的建筑。

This small house is at the entrance of Quinta da Boavista, Mesão Frio in the Douro Valley, set in a dramatic landscape transformed by man over the centuries to produce wine. It houses the caretaker and is the first phase of an intervention that will expand and refurbish the existing buildings for agriculture and tourism.

这座房子取代了现有的农业建筑。它是对本地类型的重新诠释，由简单的体量组成，与形成景观的梯田的石墙成直角。抵达庄园后，房子坐落在入口处，略微独立，但完美地融入了具有强烈同质性的建筑群中。这种特征是由覆盖着陶瓷屋顶瓦片的简单的白色体量、当地石材的挡土墙、木制花架和涂成深蓝色的剩余木匠所赋予的。

The house replaces an existing agricultural construction. It is the reinterpretation of a vernacular typology composed of simple volumes set at a right angle to the stone wall of the terraces that shape the landscape. Upon arrival at the estate, the house sits at the entrance, slightly detached but perfectly integrated into the group of constructions that possess a strong homogeneous character. This character is given by the simple white volumes covered with ceramic roof tiles, retaining walls in local stone, wooden trellis and remaining carpentry painted a deep blue.

然而，正如该建筑直接与这种乡土传统有关，符合客户的愿望和保持这种文化景观的脆弱平衡和一致性的愿望，它也与现代传统有关，提供了一种开放的解释，对细节进行了微妙的再加工，使整个建筑具有更抽象和模糊的特征。

Still, as much as this building relates directly to this vernacular tradition, in line with the client’s wish and the desire to maintain the fragile balance and consistency of this cultural landscape, it also relates to the modern tradition, providing an openness of interpretation, with a subtle reworking of details which tend to give a more abstract and ambiguous character to the whole.

空间组织是简单而紧凑的。入口位于门廊内，可以看到杜罗河的景色。在内部，我们试图使空间与外部形式相吻合，以最简单的方式划分，没有过渡或流通空间。一个体量容纳了主要的生活空间和厨房，都在屋顶的拱顶之下，另一个体量在规模上略小，容纳了两间卧室。浴室占据了入口门廊及其头顶上的秘密储藏空间。

The spatial organization is simple and compact. The entrance is set back inside a porch, framing the view over the river Douro. Inside, we sought to make the spaces coincide with the outside form, with the simplest possible division and no transitional or circulation spaces. One volume houses the main living space and kitchen, all under the vault of the roof, and the other volume, slightly smaller in scale houses two bedrooms. The bathroom occupies the space left over from the entrance porch and its secret storage space overhead.

这种类型的建筑的部分魅力，就像门楼一样，在于故意采用小规模。我们努力使屋顶的边缘尽可能地低，这与房间中心的高度形成对比，尽管它们的物理尺寸很小，但却突出了它们的宽敞性。

Part of the charm of this type of building, as is the case with gatehouses, lies in deliberately adopting a small scale. An effort was made in keeping the edges of the roofs as low as possible, which, in contrast with the height at the centre of the rooms, accentuates their spaciousness despite their small physical size.

Architects: SAMF Arquitectos
Area: 70 m²
Year: 2014
Photographs: José Campos
Colaboration:Marta Lourenço
Area Of The Property:63 037m2
City:Mesão Frio
Country:Portugal