Perfect Adaptation to a Dramatic Landscape

Beautiful Hillside Home Overlooks Portugal’s Serra da Estrela
designed for a couple who wanted a retreat away from their hectic city life.

Camarim Arquitectos have designed a magnificent hillside home overlooking Portugal’s Serra da Estrela, the highest mountain range in the country.

Gateira is a small village placed on a beautiful hill planted with vineyards, pines and olive trees with splendid views over the southern tip of Serra da Estrela. The Z-shaped property is featuring multiple spaces, each on a different level, in order to adapt to the sloping terrain and dramatic landscape.

The design team sought to interfere with the particular landscape as little as possible.

Beyond the romantic notion of a well-grounded house, extensive contact with the ground gives enormous energy benefits: they used the earth’s endless thermal mass to balance air thermal amplitudes throughout the day and seasons.

The house’s core is split into two levels, as you enter the home at the upper story. Located between the living room and the master bedroom is a patio that extends out towards the swimming pool, as it also in turn generates ascending air flow across the house during the warm weather months and provides intensive insulation for fall and winter.

And while every space rests on its own level, each area also has direct access to the outdoors, evoking an enhanced sense of space, freedom and cohesiveness with nature.

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