A 19,157 m² estate with a chapel still standing, an adega, an eira, a well — and a tree growing through a roof. A palimpsest rehabilitation, restored slowly and honestly.
Two contiguous urban articles — 2103 (lower) and 2104 (upper). Registered as Quinta de Vila Verde for any official document. Topographic survey, June 2022.
Palimpsest, not erasure.
The site has been built and rebuilt for generations, and most of what stands is now ruin. We don't want to flatten any of that into a clean slate. Where a stone wall remains, it stays stone. The new should read as a continuation of the old — and the seam between them is where the building gets its character.
We don't want nature tamed to fit the project. We want the project to conform to the site.
Self-sufficient, by choice.
The site has no utility connections and we hope to keep it that way. The intent is self-sufficiency — solar panels, battery storage, a well, septic on site. Passive design is the starting point, not an add-on.
This is intent, not engineering. The actual sizing, siting, and screening is exactly what we'll work out with you and whatever solar and engineering specialists the project needs — treated as a design problem, not left in a field as an afterthought.