"O terraço era o prodígio da casa,nele passava o vento.eu começara a descobrir o corpoe tinha a luz por confidente."

© Ricardo Oliveira Alves

Architects: Corpo Atelier

Location: Vilamoura, 8125 Quarteira, Portugal

Architect In Charge: Filipe Paixão

Team: Filipe Paixão, Rui Martins

Area: 380.0 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Ricardo Oliveira Alves

Constructor: Window to the Future

Promoter: Vertigem SA

© Ricardo Oliveira Alves

Level 1

"O terraço era o prodígio da casa,
nele passava o vento.
eu começara a descobrir o corpo e tinha a luz por confidente."

© Ricardo Oliveira Alves

Eugénio de Andrade . Branco no branco contra a obscuridadeA golf course is limited by empty plots for detached houses and scattered trees of various types and heights. At the ground level an immense lawn is only interrupted by sandboxes and low vegetation arrangements. Above it, between the foliage of the treetops, we discover the distant views of the ocean (to the South) and the mountain (to the North).

© Ricardo Oliveira Alves

Five white terraces are stacked to allow us to move vertically and experience these different scales of the surrounding landscape. The voids between them create space for human and vegetal occupation, consta...