SEED
2025
Architecture Services
About the project
The SEED, an architecture project, was born as an emotional and physical legacy — a space designed to welcome generations and cultivate memories. Located on a serene plot that bridges the countryside and urban life, the house embodies a desire for balance between nature and contemporary living. At the core, a fruit tree stands as the symbolic heart of the house – an axis of origin, continuity, and growth, organizing the program and connecting the interior to the exterior. Each space was conceived as an extension of this gesture: a celebration of family life, presence, and shared time, where the everyday becomes a legacy.
Location
Almargem do Bispo, Sintra, Portugal
Project type
Residential
Area
800 m2
Typology
T5
Architect
Inês Amaro
Challenge
The main challenge was to unite functionality and emotion, creating a practical and luminous house, but also symbolic and immersive. The gentle topography and the relationship with the landscape demanded a sensitive integration, capable of balancing privacy, comfort, and connection to nature.
Aproach
The house is designed from pure lines and balanced volumes, where spatial fluidity promotes conviviality and introspection. The materials, wood, light stone, and neutral ceramics, were chosen for their tactile nobility and permanence, evoking time and memory. Thus, the SEED project is not limited to housing a family: it cultivates a sense of origin and continuity, transforming the home into a living, rooted, and fertile place, just like the tree that inspires it.
