Local design studio Atelier Data constructs the Praia Grande house that is located in the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park in Portugal. It is made up of five interconnected volumes and is complete with a swimming pool made to look like a pond. The house is made up of five-volume clads and fills the spaces between the protected trees in the national park.
Architect Rafael Gomes explains to Dezeen that “There was a big effort to contain the built mass of the house between the existing trees. Naturally, this pushed us for an early forecast of the house because we needed to understand the full impact of shading areas, constraints in visual relations, and limitations of space that all this would generate. This involved understanding exactly which trees were healthy enough to be sustainable, and after that study, how should construction work to preserve them – from start to finish.”
Image Credit: Atelier Data
