Casal Saloio
Architect: Miguel Marcelino
Location: Outeiro de Polima, Cascais, Portugal
Type: Museum
Year: 2023
Photographs: Lourenço T. Abreu
The following description is courtesy of the architects. The Casal Saloio de Outeiro de Polima is one of the few examples that document the first occupations of this territory. It is an old and humble rural house that has undergone successive changes and expansions over time until it is now transformed into a museum space.
In its genesis it was just a simple compartment, then it gained an annex room, then a side wing, a stone oven, the corral and the second floor, and again more other annexes. At one point two buttresses were added to contain structural problems. The constructive logic has always been that of informality and the mere supply of needs.
With so many layers of transformations, it was decided to consolidate the old rural house in its last recognizable configuration, being able to read its evolution through the broken and uneven geometry. The new expansion consists of two new volumes intersecting in an L, forming a courtyard with the existing set and adopting a similar shape and scale, continuing, now in the XXI century, the logic of successive expansions and intersections that characterize it.
Drawings
Project Details
- Architecture: Miguel Marcelino
- Structural Engineering: A2P
- Plumbing Engineering: Augusto Macedo
- Electrical Engineering: Ohmsor
- Mechanical Engineering: Rui Batista
- Fire Protection: ETU
- Landscape Design: Paulo Palma
- Phases:
- 2019 2019-2020 (invited competition)
- 2019-2020 (project)
- 2021-2023 (construction)
- General Contractor: Loviril
- Construction Supervision: RYB
- Gross Floor Area: 472 m2
- Building Footprint: 404 m2
- Location: Outeiro de Polima, Cascais, Portugal
- Client: Município de Cascais
- Copyright drawings, models and photomontages: © Archive Miguel Marcelino
- Copyright completed work photos: © Archive Miguel Marcelino (photo by Lourenço T. Abreu)
