Casa Bragança - architect António Vicente de Castro - 1959

In 1959, Casa Bragança appeared, a building with a very simple volume, without great excesses in shape or decoration, with only one floor, the distinguishing element being that instead of the usual flat roof, a butterfly roof was used. Inside the building, the layout is quite simple: according to Luísa de Castro - the architect's daughter who also is an architect and manages his archive - the concept of this project was a kind of pavilion, like the Barcelona Pavilion (1) from 1929. walls would demarcate the house, but within the horizontal planes they would only demarcate certain areas but never completely enclose them.

​Access is via the east facade, the vestibule divides the house into two zones, shared use/services and private. In the private area there are three bedrooms and a bathroom, which are located on the south facade and overlook the garden. The common area contains the dining room, living room, kitchen with utility room and the maid's bedroom and toilet, as was common at that time. Including access to the outside, which means there are two separate entrances, a shared entrance and a service entrance. As with all his projects, António Vicente de Castro also conceived and designed the entire outdoor space, creating paths and green spaces in two areas, to the south and to the north.

(1) The Barcelona Pavilion was designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), with the aim of being the German National Pavilion for the International Exhibition of Barcelona, ​​held in Montjuïc in 1929. The pavilion was demolished at the end of the fair, but due to its importance the Mies van der Rohe Foundation commissioned its reconstruction, on the same site in the 1980s.