Sérgio Rocha

Retreat House . Baião

The Retreat House is an architectural project of a single-family house designed for land on the outskirts of Baião, in a rural area. This site is characterised by the presence of agricultural activity, by several slopes and terraces.

Retreat House . Baião

The project was designed to be inhabited by a couple and so that, in the future, it can be converted into a local accommodation of rural tourism.
It has the specificity of integrate natural elements in the project’s concept and kept having a large part of the tree landscape.
Furthermore, a notable point of this project is the different dynamics of space design - recreational spaces, associated with housing - technical spaces associated with agricultural production; and spaces of interaction between the two spaces and associated paths.