• Location
    Cascais, Portugal
  • Construction period
    2008-2009
  • Project Owner
    Câmara Municipal de Cascais
  • Architecture project
    Arc. Eduardo Souto Moura
  • Engineering project
    AFA Consult
  • Construction area
    2 650m²
  • Concrete volume
    2 950m³ (720m³ coloured and 2 230 m³ grey)
  • Recognition
    2010 Secil Award for Architecture
About Casa das Histórias Paula Rego

In the historic centre of Cascais, next to Avenida da República, two colourful pyramid-shaped structures stand out from the greenery. The Casa das Histórias Paula Rego was born as a disruptive element in the urban landscape.

 

"It is never too much to contrast the abstract and artificial reality of contemporary art with the hard, everyday reality that surrounds us", explains the architect Eduardo Souto Moura.

 

Therefore, a building with an area of over 2 thousand m² was created, which considered the existing elements — the land and the trees. It was the trees that dictated the exterior material: red-pigmented concrete to contrast with the green of the forest.