架构师提供的文本描述。干预地点位于Alcácer do Sal，Alentejo，由于其地理、环境和景观特征，这一地区在葡萄牙具有真正的战略意义。在这一地区，萨多河因其通航性而成为主要的生长因子之一。广袤的盐业生产地区同样代表了该地区强劲的经济发展，加上现有的肥沃土壤，促进了农业发展。农业仍然是该地区的主导活动。

Text description provided by the architects. The intervention site is located in Alcácer do Sal, Alentejo, a region truly strategic in the country of Portugal because of its geographical, environmental and landscape features. In this area, Sado river was one of the main factors of growth due to its navigability. The extensive areas for the production of salt represented equally a strong economical development of the region, combined with the existing rich soil, which promoted agriculture. Agriculture is still the dominant activity of the region.

 © Richard John Seymour

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名为“Sítio das lezírias”，是进行干预的广泛财产[约14公顷]，是一个古老的农业区，现有两座建筑物-庄园住宅和马尔斯，其修复项目是由Atelier数据完成的。这给了我们思考家庭空间的机会，也测试了人们可以重新居住在古老的农村地区的方式。该项目是一项广泛战略的第一阶段的成果，该战略旨在复兴一片古老的农田，将新的农业技术与新的生活方式结合起来。

Named ‘Sítio das Lezírias’, the extensive property [approximately 14 ha] in which the intervention takes place, an ancient agricultural area, there are two existing buildings– the manor house, and the mews, whose rehabilitation project was done by Atelier Data. The conversion of the mews into housing, gave us the opportunity to think about domestic space and also to test the way that people can inhabit again ancient rural areas. This project is the result of the first phase of a wide strategy that aims to revive an old agricultural land, combining new agricultural techniques with a new way of living./  

将马匹转换为住房的设计准则：-保持屋顶的原始木结构和循环轴线/中央走廊[马道]；-将以前的马匹空间转换和重新设计成灵活的住房单元；-在每个住宅单元[已安装的墙壁]的限度内分配“水芯”-功能电池；-在重新解释和改造国内空间的逻辑范围内回收传统建筑技术和材料；

Design guidelines for the conversion of the mews into housing: -Keeping the original wooden structure of the roof and the circulation axis/central corridor [the horse path]; -Conversion and redesigning of the former horses’ spaces into flexible housing units; -Distribution of the “water cores” - functional batteries - within the limits of each dwelling unit [equipped walls]; -Recovery of traditional building techniques and materials within a logic of reinterpretation and reinvention of domestic space;

 © Richard John Seymour

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关于程序，有5个空间，都有大致相同的区域：4个可以用作卧室，1个可以用来谋生，还有一张桌子供你做饭和吃饭。

About program There are 5 spaces, all with approximately same area: 4 you can use as bedrooms and 1 you can use as a living, with a table where you cook and eat.

 © Richard John Seymour

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最初的建筑是马匹，四周有厚厚的墙壁，天花板上有一座漂亮的木结构支撑着屋顶，最后还有一条走廊，马匹被驱赶到自己的空间。如今，这座建筑完全保持了原来的逻辑，在这里，同一个中央走廊连接了几个空间，这些空间可以有想象力的用途。

The original building used to be mews for horses, with thick walls around, a beautiful wood structure in the ceiling supporting the roof and finally a corridor along the building where horse´s were driven to their own space. Nowadays the building keeps exactly this original logic where the same central corridor connects several spaces that can have imaginative uses.

 © Richard John Seymour

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关于材料的选择，我们决定使用抵抗和负担得起的材料，这将符合建筑的新用途和旧方法的逻辑。路面是用浸过的水泥做的，然后用蜡上蜡。在5个厕所的地板和厨房的烹饪区，我们选择了手工制作的水力马赛克，这是一个非常古老的葡萄牙工艺，有漂亮的几何和彩色的图画。所有的墙壁都有相同的修整，也有蜡微水泥，无论是在私人地区，公共地区和潮湿地区。然后，我们邀请艺术家若昂·莫罗用其他老建筑的回收材料在所有洗脸盆中创作壁画。

About material options We decided to use resistant and affordable materials that would fit in the logic of the new usage of the building and the old mews. The pavement was executed in stroked cement, which was then waxed. In the floor of the 5 toilets and the cooking area of the kitchen we chose handmade hydraulic mosaic, a very ancient Portuguese technic with beautiful geometric and colorful drawings. All the walls have the same finishing, also waxed micro cement, both in private, public and humid areas. Then we invited the artist João Mouro to create the murals in all washbasins with recycled materials from other old buildings.