Built

Monolith House

[01] Brief

A single-family house cast in one continuous pour. Board-marked walls hold the heat of the Atlantic sun and release it slowly through the night.

Location

Lisbon, Portugal

Year

2024

Typology

Residential

Area

380 m²

Status

Built

Client

Private Client

Coordinates

38°43′N 9°08′W

[02] Narrative

A house that weighs its words

Monolith House sits on a steep plot above the Tagus. Rather than terracing the slope, we cast one continuous volume that bridges it: a 38-metre concrete beam carrying three bedrooms, with the living spaces tucked into the hillside beneath.

Every wall was poured against rough-sawn pine boards. The grain of the timber is still legible in the finished surface, a quiet record of how the building was made.

Material palette

Pigmented in-situ concrete, oiled oak, blackened steel and lime plaster. Nothing is painted, nothing is clad.

[03] Plates

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