In apparent basalt stone masonry, tile coverage over wood structure and painted wooden window frames, the traditional image is reconstructed. With low volumes, long and broken, crowned by metallic elements, contemporaneity is introduced.
Near the regional road that connects Magdalena to S. Roque and in the periphery of the main core of Bandeiras, an abandoned canada (rural road) pointing to the mountain provides access to a limited size land where different buildings can be found in ruins.
From the old construction, as elements which survived earthquakes and the passage of time, a warped front with a window overlooking the canada, some stairs that can be imagined, a chimney above a wall and a counter remain, similar to so many others and unique in the magic of the place.
Among the fallen stones and the spontaneous vegetation, sills, posts, stonework and the pork place, remarkable in its functionality and perfect in shape and deployment.

This was true a year ago, depressed and depressing for those who saw an island with twice the population before the eruptive cycle of Capelinhos on the nearby island of Faial drove out.
A space to reorganize without the added value and the simultaneous dictatorship of the sea, open to the imagination and the challenge of a nature geometricized by man and shaken by the eruptions.
Taking advantage of the image of the main building and the pre-existing deployment, two buildings housing three one bedroom residential units and a common area around the pork place were drawn, thus creating a small tourist complex, where the constructive elements of traditional architecture are being reinterpreted more or less freely.
From this game, small but essential differences take place between the two buildings that are associated with volume, scale and function maintenance, and keep alive the memory of the hierarchical organization of the site.
Open to St. George island and facing the Pico mountain, the small residential units relate differently to the outside through private or semi-private areas, grassy or paved, all bounded by stone walls, hiding or leading the eye to partial views of proximity, or global ones on the horizon.
Vineyards in pens delimit the land to the north by introducing the necessary transition between a leisure landscape and a rural landscape naturalized by abandonment and by goats grazing on neighboring lands.
From all this was born a place to be and live the memory of the site.