Location
Comporta, Portugal
Year
2024
Type
Residential
Size
312 m²
Status
Completed 2024
Client
Private
Project
House M sits on a sand ridge between cork oaks. The plan is one room deep and runs the length of the plot, so every space meets the loggia on one side and the landscape on the other.
The walls are rammed on site from the soil that was excavated for the pool. Each lift is about twelve centimetres, and the strata stay visible inside and out. A cast concrete roof slab, twenty centimetres thin, cantilevers three metres beyond the walls and does all the work of shade.
Fig. 1
Living room, looking south across the loggia
Ground floor plan
Scale
1:200
Fig. 3
Rammed earth, 12 cm lifts, stabilised with 6% lime
Materials
Rammed earth
Cast concrete
Cork
Oiled oak
Credits
Architecture
Monolith Office
Structure
Aires Engenharia
Earth works
Terra Viva Lda
Landscape
Atelier Sobral
