JOSÉ NEVES, arquitecto ▪ Zachary Mainen House

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ZACHARY MAINEN AND SUSANA LIMA HOUSE, MELIDES

The site is a small plateau at the end of a heavily creased ridge line, which visually dominates the landscape of Melides Mountain, in Alentejo. Design study model. (photo: atelier José Neves)

View from the site. (photo: atelier José Neves)

The house is organized into three parts. Design study model. (photo: atelier José Neves)

The living room 180º landscape view is effectivelly framed by the wooden borders of the lowered pavement, together with the concrete columns and porches. Design study perspective.

The interior walls are either covered with handmade tiles or with lacquered and exposed French oak wood, as a kind of comfortable jacket lining. (design study sketch: José Neves)

Milton Avery, "The Picnic", Vermont, 1940, Oil on canvas

Under construction. Sample of the pigmented concrete compared with environment rocks and plain concrete. (photo: atelier José Neves)

Under construction. The L-shaped concrete columns and the view. (photo: atelier José Neves)

Under construction. The sunken living room, a porch and the kitchen skylight. (photo: atelier José Neves)

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