House Over the Hills, Paredes

House over the hills is a single-family dwelling built in the hills next to the city of Porto. It is a modular construction in wood that turns southwest and formally imitates the mountains that can be seen in the distance.

The rigorous geometry, which controls the design of the floor plan but also of the elevations of the building, gives rise to distinct spatialities inside – with different volumetric combinations and materialities – that establish different relationships with the surrounding context – variations on the same, which allow the architectural exercise to be similar without ever repeating itself.

The level at which the house is implemented is the one that guarantees the desired framing of the landscape and, at the same time, the one that allows the reading of its own covering roof from the path that gives access to it – thus favoring the integration of the volumetry of the dwelling in the surrounding landscape.
The architectural programme, which is firstly established in a single-family dwelling with three bedrooms, also foresees three more independent modules, with direct access from the exterior – reserved for two autonomous bedrooms and a multipurpose room, betting on the programmatic flexibility over time.

Architecture
Diogo Aguiar Studio

Team
Diogo Aguiar, Daniel Mudrák, Adrian Lopéz, Carolina Fiúza, Christos Gyftopoulos

Engineering
Rui Nuno Salgueiro

Client
Private

Size
200 m²

Status
Built in 2023

Photography
Liam Romo, Valentina Vagena