Lavandeira Douro Nature & Wellness / FCC Arquitectura
Textual content description supplied by the architects. The “Casa da Lavand’eira,” a rural tourism enterprise, is an eighteenth-century manor home located inside a farm that includes vineyards and a lush forest. The primary home is a granite-built manor with a chapel, a corridor, numerous rooms, a kitchen with a conventional fire, and bedrooms. All through the property, different buildings have been tailored to function lodging.
The farm is bordered by the Ovil River, providing the chance to expertise a captivating designated mountain climbing path (“Ovil River, its legends, and mills”). Alongside this path, guests can benefit from the pure panorama, cross picket walkways, and observe the flora, fauna, and architectural heritage (mills and conventional residences) that characterize this area.
The thought originated from a dream of the proprietor and shortly this household dream was the fact that’s now Casa Lavand’eira, a vacationer enterprise primarily based on an built-in mission that features vacationer lodging, occasion internet hosting, wine manufacturing, and a novel reference to nature. The exploration of the property goals to (re)inform the story of the property, selling a reconnection with the real, with the land, and the traditions of the area, whereas preserving the biodiversity, tales, and recollections that the house gives.
The intervention technique is predicated on the pure and scenic heritage of the property and Baião: natural world, the Ovil River, the winery panorama, regional gastronomy, and wine. The proprietor of the property began producing their very own wine just a few years in the past and has been increasing the vine cultivation for this objective. The intention is to determine this product as a attribute factor of the enterprise, anticipating the exploration of this theme in numerous features, and facilitating direct interplay with the cultural and scenic heritage.
The intervention plans contain refurbishing the previous buildings scattered throughout the property and developing new areas. Along with increasing the lodging models, a service hub can be established (restaurant, bar, spa, and out of doors pool), together with areas designated for employees and provisions for crucial parking. The mission additionally encompasses an “natural backyard” geared toward supplying the restaurant’s kitchen.
On the western high of the plot delimited by the Ovil River, in an space favored for daylight publicity and wonderful panorama views, the brand new lodging models can be positioned. These models can be distributed in contemporary-styled bungalows whose architectural language displays this modernity.
The complete mission was conceived sustainably, striving to optimize building to reduce its environmental influence on the environment. Located on a 7.3-hectare property, the mission has already been acknowledged by the Municipal Council and Tourism of Portugal as having vital public curiosity.
