volcanic wood

For this project, Bernardo Rodrigues have reinterpretated the classic Greek and Roman model of the house with two courtyards, one for entrance and the other central, collecting the rain waters, letting light and ventilation reach the open gound floor, of living and kitchen. The house is composed in two levels and built at the center of a triangular site. On the first floor, there are rooms and bathroom. The kitchen inside a giant light chimney volume recalls the tall chimneys of the popular Azorean architecture, joined by a traditional exterior oven. Between the garage and the kitchen, a small volume of wooden horizontal planks serves as cloth drier using natural ventilation and recalls the typical tobacco dryers from the island.

The east and south exterior is cast with local lava stone. Above it, the Architects have played with two moving cryptomeria wood volumes around the impluvium courtyard that envelops the rooms and links with the traditional wood volumes originally from Japan seen all over the site. These two frames the view towards the north shore and ocean in the main room, and towards the seven cities volcano and mountains on the second room, at the south.