Location: Sintra, Portugal
Architect: Raul Lino
Model Scale: 1: 100
Year: 1907-1912
Casa do Cipreste, one of the works that most marked the professional life of Architect Raul Lino, was built in the middle of Serra de Sintra, in São Pedro de Sintra, surrounded by well-kept houses and others “in ruins waiting for someone to occupy”[citation needed].
It is a residential building, with the designation of “A Pedreira”, made for the personal residence of Raul Lino, still in the possession of his family, being considered a Property of Public Interest, in the Protected Area of Sintra-Cascais
It is a house with an irregular plan, composed by the articulation of bodies with different heights and areas, it develops over five floors, topped by staggered and differentiated roofs, made by roofs with 2, 4, 6 and 8 waters. In an implantation in a terrain of high slope, the roof and basement are part of its 5 floors, being the basement totally buried. In order to make better use of the land possible, in an organic design, this work will result in an articulation of volumes, of different floors and morphologies, in a zigzag plan
