卡萨尔斯阿洛约——乡村博物馆丨葡萄牙丨Miguel Marcelino

Architects:Miguel Marcelino

Area:472m²

Year:2023

Photographs:Archive Miguel Marcelino (photo by Lourenço T. Abreu),Archive Miguel Marcelino

Manufacturers:Bona,Daisalux,Diasen,O/M Light - Osvaldo Matos

Lead Architect:Miguel Marcelino

Collaborator:Rafael Ramalho, João Neto, Martina Cappellini, Mariana Almeida

Hydraulics:Augusto Macedo

Mechanical Engineering:Rui Batista

Landscape:Paulo Palma

Structures:A2P

Electrical:Ohmsor

Fire Protection:ETU

General Contractor:Loviril

Work Supervision:RYB

Client:Município de Cascais

City:São Domingos de Rana

Country:Portugal

Text description provided by the architects. The Casal Saloio de Outeiro de Polima is one of the few examples that document the first occupations of this territory. It is an old and humble rural house that has undergone successive changes and expansions over time until it is now transformed into a museum space.

In its genesis it was just a simple compartment, then it gained an annex room, then a side wing, a stone oven, the corral, and the second floor, and again more other annexes. At one point two buttresses were added to contain structural problems. The constructive logic has always been that of informality and the mere supply of needs.

With so many layers of transformations, it was decided to consolidate the old rural house in its last recognizable configuration, being able to read its evolution through the broken and uneven geometry. The new expansion consists of two new volumes intersecting in an L, forming a courtyard with the existing set and adopting a similar shape and scale, continuing, now in the XXI century, the logic of successive expansions and intersections that characterize it.

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Project location

Address:Outeiro de Polima, 2785-816 São Domingos de Rana, Portugal