With a total construction area of 850 m2, the conception of the house has the following relevant aspects:

1 – Living Room – Double height (5,60m); -  Inexistent pillars on the valley frontage; - Garden  over the slab of the console covering with 11 m of span.

2 – Office – a “box” independent from the remaining elements of the construction; - located between the ground floor and the 1st floor, in the upper right corner of the living room volume.

To solve these challenges, we designed a structure similar to a stand covering in concrete, and chose, after geotechnical studies, shallow foundations and drilled shafts.

We pondered the use of prestressed in the consoles, but it was possible throughout a general optimization, to control, using conventional methods, the deformation, avoiding damage in the frames and glass of the valley frontage.  

The office slab, with a rigid form, was tied to the console covering through cantilevers. We established some connections to external rigid elements to obtain additional bracing.

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Technical Information

Architecture - GLCS - Gonçalo Louro & Cláudia Santos - Arquitectos, Lda.

Structures - SE2P - Sociedade de Engenharia, Projectos e Planeamento, Lda.

Water and Sewage - SE2P - Sociedade de Engenharia, Projectos e Planeamento, Lda.

Acoustic Conditioning - SE2P - Sociedade de Engenharia, Projectos e Planeamento, Lda.

HVAC - GET - Gestão de Energia Térmica, Lda.

Electricity and Telecommunications - RMGO, Lda.