Eduardo Souto de Moura   Portugal   Twenty-five years after the original project, clients decided to extend the living space using the ruin as a complement to the existing housing. The objective is to maintain the current image of the building, taking full advantage of the views of the

Eduardo Souto de Moura   Portugal   The aim is to eliminate the character of ‘building,’ reducing its image to that of a ‘machine’ in the landscape. A concrete ‘cap’ covers the buried elements (two wells and the atrium); to the exterior only a fissure of 1 meter in height is visible on