Houses 06, 07 and 09 from the primary dune, March 202635 mm · 17:12
Fourteen houses on nine hectares behind the primary dune at Comporta, none of them taller than a pine.
The land was a failed eucalyptus plantation when we bought it in 2019. We took the eucalyptus out, replanted 2.1 hectares of umbrella pine, and let the licensing take the four years it took. The plan that came out of it puts every house on the second line, thirty metres back from the crest, so that from the beach you see a dune and a few roofs the colour of the dune.
Every house is one room deep on the west side, so that the light crosses it, and every one has the same section: a limestone box, a reed roof carried two and a half metres past the wall, and a terrace the full width of the house. What changes is the plan.
A single volume of fifteen metres by twelve. Living, dining and kitchen run along the west face; three bedrooms sit behind a hall that runs the length of the house. The smallest of the three, and the one the architects like best.
An L. The long arm holds the living rooms and faces the water; the short arm turns into the pines and holds two bedrooms around a court with three trees kept from the plantation. The court is where the house is coolest in August.
The largest house, and the only one that lifts a room above the roof: a study with the whole horizon in it, reached by a stair from the hall. Five bedrooms, a court, and a pool set into the terrace so that its edge and the sea line up when you are sitting down.
Four materials, used everywhere, and nothing else. We buy them in one order for all fourteen houses, which is why the limestone in the last house matches the limestone in the first, and why the reed came off one winter’s cut in the Sado marshes.
Moleanos, sawn and honed, 40 mm. Floors, terraces, the pool surround.
Sado marsh reed, cut in winter, laid 300 mm deep by the Carrasqueira thatchers.
Maritime pine from Grândola, brushed and oiled. Decks, shutters, the ceilings.
Unlacquered, so it goes brown in the salt within a season. Handles, taps, the door pulls.
Lisbon · founded 2007 · Rita Bastos, Nuno Mateus
Rita Bastos and Nuno Mateus have built forty houses between Comporta and Melides and have never built one with a corridor on the sea side. Their office is four rooms above a hardware shop on Rua da Boavista, and the model of Casa das Dunas — chipboard, 1:200, made in a fortnight in 2020 — is still on the table under the window.
We asked them for houses that would be finished by the landscape rather than by us. They gave us a section instead of a style: a wall, a deep roof, a terrace, and a rule that the ridge may never rise above the dune behind it. Everything else on this page follows from that section.
Ten of the fourteen are sold or reserved. The four that remain are 02, 08, 11 and 14 — one of each typology, and the last T5 on the north edge. Select a row to find it on the plan, or a house on the plan to find its row.
Updated 2 September 2026
| Plot | Typology | House | Terrace | Plot | Price | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Casa T5 Sea | 416 m² | 120 m² | 3 050 m² | €4 600 000 | Sold |
| 02 | Casa T3 Dune | 184 m² | 58 m² | 2 970 m² | €1 950 000 | Available |
| 03 | Casa T3 Dune | 184 m² | 58 m² | 2 450 m² | €2 100 000 | Sold |
| 04 | Casa T3 Dune | 192 m² | 58 m² | 2 320 m² | €2 150 000 | Reserved |
| 05 | Casa T4 Pine | 286 m² | 84 m² | 4 000 m² | €2 950 000 | Sold |
| 06 | Casa T4 Pine | 298 m² | 84 m² | 4 810 m² | €3 100 000 | Sold |
| 07 | Casa T4 Pine | 286 m² | 84 m² | 3 590 m² | €2 850 000 | Reserved |
| 08 | Casa T4 Pine | 298 m² | 84 m² | 3 960 m² | €3 050 000 | Available |
| 09 | Casa T4 Pine | 286 m² | 84 m² | 3 800 m² | €2 900 000 | Sold |
| 10 | Casa T3 Dune | 184 m² | 58 m² | 2 920 m² | €2 050 000 | Sold |
| 11 | Casa T3 Dune | 192 m² | 58 m² | 3 040 m² | €2 200 000 | Available |
| 12 | Casa T3 Dune | 184 m² | 58 m² | 2 850 m² | €2 000 000 | Sold |
| 13 | Casa T5 Sea | 408 m² | 120 m² | 2 880 m² | €4 400 000 | Reserved |
| 14 | Casa T5 Sea | 416 m² | 120 m² | 2 810 m² | €4 500 000 | Available |
The brochure has the survey, the three plans at 1:100, the material schedule, the planting plan and the price list. Sofia Ribeiro sends it herself, usually the same afternoon.
Sales suite · Rua do Secador 3, Comporta