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The Gafarim House

CompanyTiago do Vale Architects

Lead DesignersTiago do Vale

Design TeamTiago do Vale, María Cainzos Osinde

Project LocationPonte de Lima, Portugal

ClientPrivate

CreditsPhotos by: João Morgado

Prize(s)Bronze in Architecture Categories / House

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Entry Description

Between vernacular and contemporary references, between blind volumes and open planes, the Gafarim House is an independent object among independent objects.

The Gafarim House offers monolithic, opaque volumes to the street -citing the compact, parallelepipedic masses of northern Portuguese popular architecture- while adjusting its scale to the surroundings and distancing itself from the post-rural decorativism that is the norm in today’s Portuguese countryside.

Its spaces are of great transparency, though, relating through a generous glass wall with the plot and the wide Minho views.