Nestled into the sandy beaches of Comporta, Portugal sits the impressive and uniquely shaped Monte House. This modern but natural looking structure, built by innovative designers at Pereira Miguel Arquitectos, has been nicknamed “The Dune House” for the way is harnesses the beauty of the sand dunes surrounding as an inspiration for its shape.

葡萄牙坐落在Comporta的沙滩上，坐落着令人印象深刻和形状独特的蒙特豪斯。这座现代而自然的建筑是由佩雷拉·米格尔·阿奎托斯的创新设计师建造的，它被戏称为“沙丘之家”，因为它利用周围沙丘的美丽作为造型的灵感。

The original aim of this project was to try and establish a clear visual and functional relationship between a new building and the landscape on which designers chose to build it. The goal was to create a home that looks like a fixed point where the natural world and the human one meet and intersect as seamlessly as possible.

这个项目最初的目的是试图建立一个清晰的视觉和功能之间的关系，一个新的建筑和景观设计师选择建造它。我们的目标是创造一个看上去像一个固定的地方的家，在那里，自然世界和人类世界尽可能地无缝地相遇和相交。

One of the ways in which designers tried to enable this seamless meeting of worlds was by building artificial sand dunes, one on either side of the actual dwelling space. These help establish a physical relationship between the structure itself and its surrounding landscape as well as a visual one.

设计师们试图让这个无缝的世界相遇的方法之一是在实际居住空间的两边建造人造沙丘。这些有助于建立结构本身与其周围景观之间的物理关系，以及视觉上的关系。

Nestled in between the concrete and sand hills lies the main living space of the house, encased in four natural concrete walls, one of shining floor to ceiling glass, and accessed by beautifully smooth stained wooden doors. These materials at once blend into the landscape but also provide solid shelter in a location where beach weather can become quite harsh quickly when the sun isn’t out.

坐落在混凝土和沙丘之间的是房子的主要居住空间，四周是四堵天然混凝土墙，一层是发光的地板，另一层是天花板，门上有漂亮光滑的彩色木门。这些材料立即融入景观，但也提供了坚实的住所，在一个地方，海滩的天气可以变得相当恶劣的时候，太阳没有出来。

As if bearing its own faux sand dunes didn’t make the house interesting enough, an extra element of visual appeal is added by the undulating shape of the roof. Like the sand dunes surrounding it, the monolithic and monochromatic concrete roof of the main house ebbs and flows, rising and dipping in the same rounded off shapes as the sand hills piled around the beach.

似乎承载自己的人造沙丘并没有使房子足够有趣，一个额外的视觉吸引力元素增加了起伏形状的屋顶。就像周围的沙丘一样，主房子的整体和单色混凝土屋顶起起落落，起伏的形状和沙滩周围的沙丘一样圆。

Inside the house, the ceiling actually undulates right along with the roof! This creates interesting but entirely different visual an spatial experiences inside and out based around the same element of the house. The waves of the ceiling and roof almost become and experience in and of themselves as you cross the house on the interior or outside.

在房子里面，天花板实际上和屋顶一起起伏！这创造了有趣，但完全不同的视觉，空间体验内外围绕着房子的相同元素。天花板和屋顶的波浪几乎变成和经验本身，当你穿过房子的内部或外部。

In fact, one can even walk from one end of the house to the other on top of the roof, climbing up and down the slopes of the faux sand dunes on either side. Standing on the different hills and dips will actually give you a different view of the surrounding beach area from a different level, depending on where you’re situated.

事实上，一个人甚至可以从房子的一端走到屋顶的另一端，爬上爬下两边的人造沙丘的斜坡。站在不同的山丘和坡地上，根据你所处的位置，你实际上可以从不同的角度看到周围的海滩区域。

There is actually one more thing that the shape of the roof and house is intended to pay homage to besides just the sand dunes. Once upon a time, an old winding road was paved through this area. Though long gone, it was a point of access for many people to enjoy the beach, so now the home’s roof winds like its own little concrete road, allowing visitors to see the beach like the road used to.

实际上，除了沙丘之外，屋顶和房屋的形状还有一件事要表达敬意。很久以前，有一条蜿蜒的旧路穿过这个地区。虽然已经走了很久，但对于许多人来说，这是一个享受海滩的入口，所以现在家里的屋顶风就像它自己的小水泥路，让游客可以像以前那样看到海滩。

Extending from the central volume of the house, the actual living spaces protrude in three remaining volumes, built on four arms that raise them from the uneven ground a little and make them feel slightly detached from the front of the house for more private relaxation. Thought the sleeping areas lie in a different wing from the public ones, natural wooden platforms leading from space to space and to the stunning pool out back make everything feel cohesive and far from closed off or hard to access.

实际的生活空间从房屋的中心容积延伸到了三个剩余的容积中，这四只手臂将它们从不平坦的地面升起一点，并使它们从房子的前部稍微分开，以更多的私人放松。认为睡眠区域与公共区域不同，自然的木质平台从空间到空间，以及向后向外的惊人的游泳池，让一切都感觉凝聚力，远离封闭或难以接近。

Photos by Fernando Guerra

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CATEGORIES: House

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