Pedro Domingos Arquitectos designed Casa Luum, a minimal holiday house in Faro, Portugal.

The house is located in the hills of Faro, facing the valley of Agostos. An interior place protected from the coast. A landscape based on the mediterranean tradition, structured by small plots delimited by stone walls, trees, water tanks and small constructions. The house is implanted in this context embedded in the slope twinned to another existing house.

Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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A walled patio is the central space of the house, an outside living room that contains a raised water tank.

Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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The program of the house is organized in two levels.
The entrance level: the patio, the tank, the kitchen and four bedrooms. And the upper level: the living room and the solarium.

Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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The house is built with an elementary system similar to local popular architecture: white concrete floors, white walls and ceilings, wooden window frames and steel sliding doors.

The water containers of the house: bath tank, counters, washbasins and showers, are made in massive local stone.

Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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The atmosphere of the house is defined by a set of spaces of light and shadow where the water is the primordial material.

Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Casa Luum, Pedro Domingos arquitectos, Casa Agostos, white, minimal, patio, pool, Santa Barbara, Faro
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Plans

Facts & Credits
Project title  CASA AGOSTOS II a.k.a. Casa Luum
Location  Santa Bárbara-de-Nexe, Faro
Architecture  Pedro Domingos Arquitectos
Collaborators  Bruno Antão (project leader), Pedro Gonçalves, David Delgado, João Bagorro
Architecture local team  Estúdio ODS, Bruno Oliveira e Edite Borges
Client  Kristoff Van Der Vekens
Year    2014/2016
Construction  20017/2018
Structures  ARA, Alves Rodrigues
Hydraulic  João Guimarães
Electricity, telecommunications and avac  Natural Works
Contractor  Batisul lda
Area  250m2 (house) + 700m2 (landscape)
Photography   Pedro Domingos Arquitectos, Fernando Guerra – FG+SG

Casa Luum is available to rent here!

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Have also a look at Cabo de Vila, designed by Spaceworkers in Portugal!


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