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year 2008
source title John Pawson: Katalog
info Ownership of the Barrocal estate has passed down seven generations of the same family, its name deriving from the barrocas or granite outcrops, strewn with monumental stones, some lying as nature placed them, other configurations dating from the Megalithic period. The houses on plots 10 and 12 are part of a larger master plan for a sustainable development taking the agricultural tradition of the 780-hectare estate and embedding a series of dwellings within it. Archaeological research revealed that the earliest inhabitants of the land developed settlements around the large stones, cumulatively forming a sort of dispersed city. This ancient practice of building between the stones serves as a blueprint for the new architecture.
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year 2008
source title John Pawson: Katalog
info Ownership of the Barrocal estate has passed down seven generations of the same family, its name deriving from the barrocas or granite outcrops, strewn with monumental stones, some lying as nature placed them, other configurations dating from the Megalithic period. The houses on plots 10 and 12 are part of a larger master plan for a sustainable development taking the agricultural tradition of the 780-hectare estate and embedding a series of dwellings within it. Archaeological research revealed that the earliest inhabitants of the land developed settlements around the large stones, cumulatively forming a sort of dispersed city. This ancient practice of building between the stones serves as a blueprint for the new architecture.
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