Coura House / LuÃs Peixoto
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).
© Arménio Teixeira
Architects: LuÃs Peixoto
Location: Paredes de Coura, Portugal
Engineering: Eng. José Luis Clara
Construction: Construções José Clara
Area: 1291.6 ft2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Arménio Teixeira
© Arménio Teixeira
Text description provided by the architects. 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).
© Arménio Teixeira
Section 05
© Arménio Teixeira
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 existi...
© Arménio Teixeira
Architects: LuÃs Peixoto
Location: Paredes de Coura, Portugal
Engineering: Eng. José Luis Clara
Construction: Construções José Clara
Area: 1291.6 ft2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Arménio Teixeira
© Arménio Teixeira
Text description provided by the architects. 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).
© Arménio Teixeira
Section 05
© Arménio Teixeira
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 existi...
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