This project is about the reconstruction of a ruin build of granite stone, its relationship to the landscape and a glass house that not only houses plants but also acts as a spatial counterpart to the otherwise solid stone building.

Three rooms of the former farm house will be used as enclosed and warm spaces while the remaining four rooms are turned into outdoor rooms that confuse the boundary between landscape and
interior and become spaces for improvisation.

Based in the north of Portugal, close to the Atlantic Ocean, the buildings are exposed to humidity and moderate temperatures. The granite walls are founded directly on the earth and assembled as dry construction.

Instead of adding layers of insulation, cavities, plastics and membranes, the project explores a form of reconstruction that maintains the simplicity of the monolithic wall by the means of an active insulation. Copper pipes, embedded in the exterior walls, heat these permanently throughout the colder periods and thereby break capillary action, control humidity and the temperature inside through radiant heat.

Text provided by the architects.

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Dyvik Kahlen Architects have converted this former warehouse, overlooking the Paddington Old Cemetery, into a contemporary and vibrant live/work unit for an artist and his family. Warehouses for all their abundance of space and exposed, sexy steel roof trusses, don’t usually have much to offer in the window department. However, this one is flooded with natural light courtesy of the continuous array of windows along all four facades that deliver the light and generous feel of the original space. Skylights above and whitewashed timber floors add to the feeling of expansiveness. The original 200sqm open floor plan has been simply divided into five rooms.

Dyvik Kahlen have resisted the urge to make use of every square metre, essentially keeping the integrity of the ‘warehouse experience’ in place, creating an expanse of openness, uninterrupted by walls or corridors. The main space is arranged around a large central staircase that leads to an open living area and the kitchen. Towards one side, large double doors continuing the sequence of windows, lead to three bedrooms. Towards the other side, a series of columns define the transition to the living area as well as the bathroom and a larder. Two sliding doors are arranged along this threshold which allow you to close or open these rooms towards the central space.

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