Five Terraces and a Garden

A golf course is limited by empty plots for detached houses and scattered trees of various types and heights. At the ground level an immense lawn is only interrupted by sandboxes and low vegetation arrangements.

Photography by © Ricardo Oliveira Alves

Above it, between the foliage of the treetops, we discover the distant views of the ocean (to the South) and the mountain (to the North). Five white terraces are stacked to allow us to move vertically and experience these different scales of the surrounding landscape.

Photography by © Ricardo Oliveira Alves

The voids between them create space for human and vegetal occupation, constantly hidden or revealed, formalizing the illusion of an interior garden or an exterior house.

Photography by © Ricardo Oliveira Alves

Project Info Architects: Corpo Atelier Location: Quarteira, Portugal Architect in Charge: Filipe Paixão Team: Filipe Paixão, Rui Martins Area: 380.0 m2 Year: 2015 Type: Residential Photographs: Ricardo Oliveira Alves