蒙特有一个核心，其特点是沿中央街道植入了 7 座建筑物，该街道定义了两个主要集（北和南）。北部建筑群占地4.144平方米，由两栋建筑组成：旧工业和办公楼和农具仓库。南部综合体由5栋建筑组成：主楼、农舍、鸽舍、狗舍和猪圈，面积为3.810平方米。再往南，菜园面积为 20.333 m²，包括面积为 34 m² 的旧菜园管理员的房子，以及牢牢抓住花岗岩露头（barrocal）的室外游泳池。

The Monte has a core characterized by 7 buildings implanted along a central street, which defines two main sets (North and South). The North complex, with an area of 4.144 m², consists of 2 buildings: the old industrial and officinal building and the storehouse for the farming tools. The South complex consists of 5 buildings: the main house, the agricultural pavilions, the dovecot, the kennel and the pigsty, with an area of 3.810 m². Further south, the vegetable garden area comprises 20.333 m², including the old vegetable garden keeper’s house, with an area of 34 m², and the outdoor pool that keeps a firm hold of a granite outcrop (barrocal).

然后还有另外两个因素在观点方面也令人惊讶。在阿连特茹，不同寻常的是在该物业的边缘有水——著名的阿尔克瓦大坝和蒙萨拉斯的景色，从外面看都很可爱。第二个问题是这座山的城市性质。这不仅仅是一所房子。这是一个真正的小宇宙，一个村庄。它有自己的层次结构：街道、广场、附属建筑、回廊。这是我们很少能在如此好的条件下找到的。
我看事情不是因为它们本身的价值，而是总是从如何处理它们的角度来看。也就是说，我应该在这里做什么？每个人都知道每一个历史性的发展都是独一无二的，而 Barrocal 是一个困难但非常有趣的项目，因为我们正在努力工作。如果我们走得太远，我们就会破坏它，如果我们做得不够，它就行不通。

Then there were two other factors that were also a surprise where views were concerned. What is unusual in Alentejo is to have water on the edge of the property – the famous Alqueva Dam and the views of Monsaraz which is lovely from the outside in. The second question was the urban nature of this monte. This is not just a house. This is truly a mini-universe, a village. It has its own hierarchy: a street, a square, outbuildings, cloisters. This is what we rarely find in such good condition.

I see things not for their value as such but always from the point of view of how to handle them. That is, what should I do here? Everyone knows that each historic development is unique and Barrocal is a difficult but very interesting project because we are working on the razor’s edge. If we go too far, we’ll spoil it, and if we don’t do enough it won’t work.

这里的主要问题是从理论上非常有趣但实际上在实践中非常危险的位置开始——但这是唯一的方法。保护遗产的唯一方法是与它一起生活并使用它，即使它在某些地方遭到破坏。因为只有日常生活才能将其转化为自然的东西并赋予其遗产地位。

The main question here is starting from a position that is theoretically very interesting but actually very dangerous in practice – but it’s the only way. The only way to preserve heritage is to live with it and use it, even if it is damaged in some places. Because only everyday life transforms it into something natural and gives it heritage status.

这里令人着迷的是用法的变化。一座建筑可能是为特定目的而建造的，然后不断发展以满足不同的当代需求。有一个非常引人入胜的过程，例如，如何将橄榄榨油机变成带酒吧的客厅，如何将农业附属建筑变成房屋，以及如何将牛棚变成餐厅。这种使用上的改变几乎不需要任何干预。挑战在于架构将如何应对。

What’s fascinating here is the change in usage. A building might be created for a particular purpose, and then evolve to meet different, contemporary needs. There is a process that is very absorbing finding out how an olive press, for example, can become a place for a living room with a bar, how agricultural outbuildings can be made into houses, and how a cowshed can be made into a restaurant. This change in use needs hardly any intervention at all. The challenge is how architecture will responde.

我想人们的第一印象会是他们在这里有宾至如归的感觉，即使他们只是来放松一下。一个要读书，另一个要写论文，另一个要来这里度假。人们会遇到彼此，他们会去买面包或报纸，或者他们会出去吃晚饭。他们会相遇，几天后就会建立联系。我认为形成一种社区很重要。但是一个转瞬即逝的社区，因为这就是它的设计方式。除了人会变。不再是工人，而是这些来自远方的人。”

I think that people’s first impression will be that they feel at home here, even if they have come just to relax. One is going to read, another is going to write a thesis, another is here for a holiday. People will run into each other and they will go off to buy bread or the paper or they will go out for dinner. They will run into each other and after a few days there will be a connection. I think it is important to form a kind of community. But a fleeting community, because that’s the way it’s designed. Except that the people will have changed. It won’t be the workers anymore, it will be these people drawn from far beyond the monte.”

Architects: Eduardo Souto de Moura
Area : 13524 m²
Year : 2016
Photographs :Nelson Garrido
Interior Design Studio : AnahoryAlmeida
Landscape Architect : João Gomes da Silva
Project Engineering: : Afaconsult
Client : São Lourenço do Barrocal
City : Monsaraz
Country : Portugal