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Aguiar de Sousa, Paredes, Portugal

A house integrated with nature.

A modular wooden construction that turns to the southwest and formally mimics the hills that can be seen in the distance. The rigorous geometry, which controls the designs of plans and elevations, gives rise to distinct spatialities, with distinct combinations and materialities, and in different relationships with the surrounding context - variations that allow the architectural exercise to be the same 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 roof from the path that gives access to house - thus favoring the integration of the dwelling in its own landscape.