架构师提供的文本描述。该项目位于葡萄牙西北边境的一个小村庄，其原因是必须扩大既有的具有典型和乡土特征的旧住房结构，并适应新的建设性和空间要求。

Text description provided by the architects. Located in a small village in the Portuguese North West border, the project arises from the necessity of expansion of a preexisting old housing structure, with typical and vernacular identity, and adaptation to new constructive and spatial requirements.

 © Francisco Nogueira

弗朗西斯科·诺盖拉

既有的建筑-底层和第一层-“主持”了私人住宅项目、房间和浴室，在这个建设性的问题上，这些建筑试图恢复一些传统的建筑技术，同时保持简陋的建筑语言。

The preexisting structure – Ground floor and fist floor levels – ‘hosts’ the private housing program, rooms and bathrooms, which in the constructive issue, sought to recover some of the traditional construction techniques, keeping as well the humble architecture language.

 © Francisco Nogueira

弗朗西斯科·诺盖拉

新的扩展卷，收到了社会住房计划-客厅，厨房和过渡空间-采取了一种当代语言，寻找更好的景观框架，与有效的阳光定向，创造了良好的内部关系。

The new expansion volume, receives the social housing program – living rooms, kitchen and transition spaces – takes on to an contemporary language that searches for the better landscape framework, connected with the efficient sunlight orientation, that creates an fine relation between interior & exterior space. The option for the wood and noble material facade, contributes to the low visual impact and good integration to surrounding atmosphere.