Vila Helena Maria

Single-family housing with a composition that is characteristic of the architecture of the 1930/40s in the urban context of the Algarve and dedicated to upper-middle level housing.

The house has a composition based on the right position of elementary volumes, with large wall panels full of decoration; the crowning by a 'platibanda' interrupted by ceramic elements; flat roofs ( terraces), sometimes equipped with observation structures (viewpoints); and the construction details of solid design and careful execution evident in the use of ceramic covering or filling elements.

The architecture combines motifs of erudite and reference to the "Art Deco" (here evident in the crowning of walls and 'plaitbanda'), with characteristics currently associated with the Algarve's regional identity.

A Platibanda normally decorates and “hides” the terraces but also the roofs.