VALEDRA
Dune ridge with umbrella pines at late afternoon; the Atlantic a grey-green band at the left, the sun low at the right.

Three places on the Alentejo coast, built slowly.

38°22′N 8°47′W · Comporta · 17:04
01 Casa das Dunas · 02 Herdade do Sado · 03 Praia Norte AMI 14522
The developments

Forty-five houses on three pieces of coast, each drawn for the ground it sits on. None of them higher than the pines.

01

Casa das Dunas

Comporta · 14 houses

Four houses remain · completion spring 2026

Low white houses with deep thatch overhangs on the sand, long shadows reaching left toward the sea.

Fourteen houses behind the primary dune, none taller than a pine, each with a terrace the full width of the house facing west.

Explore the masterplan
02

Herdade do Sado

Sado estuary · 22 villas

Releasing plots 12–19, autumn 2026

Still estuary water and mud flats under a pale sky, a line of cork oaks on the far bank.

A former rice estate on the south bank, kept as one piece of land: twenty-two villas among the cork oaks, a clubhouse at the water.

The estate
03

Praia Norte

Melides · 9 beach houses

Launching January 2027 · register interest

Beach houses raised on timber posts among dune grass, the sea at the left.

Nine houses lifted above the sand on posts, so the grass runs under them and the beach stays a beach.

The houses

I. Light

Every house we have built has a terrace that faces west. Not for the view, though there is one, but for the hour between five and six when the light comes in low across the water and the limestone turns the colour of bread.

II. Time

We build slowly. A house takes us two years, a place takes ten. The pines we plant in the first winter are taller than the roofs by the time the last plot is sold, and that is the point.

III. Land

Thirty-eight per cent of every site is left as it was found: dune, sapal, cork. We draw the plan around what is already there, and then we draw it again until the houses disappear into it.

45 houses · 3 sites · 2014–2026 38% protected dune · 2.1 ha replanted pine
Casa das Dunas · Sheet VDR-CDD-SP-001

The masterplan

Fourteen plots on nine hectares behind the primary dune. The plan is drawn to scale from the survey, and on the development page it stands up: scroll, and the houses rise from their footprints.

Open the plan
Private viewings

Come at five

We show the houses in the late afternoon, on foot, one household at a time. Sofia Ribeiro will write back within a day with two dates. The sales suite in Comporta is open Thursday to Monday; Lisbon, by appointment.

Rua do Secador 3, Comporta
+351 21 346 0130
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Sofia will write within a day with two dates in the late afternoon. If you are already on the coast, the sales suite in Comporta is open Thursday to Monday, ten to seven.