Sky Base One Has Landed in Portugal With a $9.7 Million Price Tag
Portugal may have pulled the plug on the real estate element of their popular Golden Visa program in 2023, but Trekkies and other sci-fi fans who might still like a permanent or part-time home base in the Iberian country’s scenic Algarve region should set their sights on Sky Base One.
Inspired by books and films and completed just last year (2023) in an up-and-coming area near the sea, the futuristic residence was conceived by Spy Manor Productions, a film production and real estate development company. Featured in the TV crime drama Cold Mind, Sky Base One is now available to sci-fi enthusiasts and aficionados of ultra-modern architecture for €9 million ($9.7 million). Carl Gambino of The Gambino Group at Compass is the U.S. marketing rep for the suis generis domicile.
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With the 6,700-square-foot home, the architects and developers—ahem—boldly went where few architects and builders have gone before, integrating shapes, angles and elements that both subtly and more explicitly resemble spacecraft such as Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise. The designers also envisioned Sky Base One as a refuge following the COVID-19 pandemic. “Airflow, materials and surfaces [were] planned to facilitate maintaining a spotless environment,” according to marketing material.
Beyond the secured entrance gates, a tall concrete wall forms a serene semicircular courtyard with naturalistic desert landscaping too green to be a moonscape but minimal enough to evoke someplace otherworldly. A gigantic skylight caps the entrance gallery, where smooth concrete steps wrap around a perforated golden cylinder that serves as the home’s “transporter”—it houses an elevator. At the top of the steps lies the great room, a sleek, minimalist space with a fireplace surmounted by a flat-screen TV on one wall and a well-appointed and discreetly all-black kitchen with integrated appliances on the other.
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A room-wide floor-to-ceiling wall of glass automatically slips down into the floor, uniting the great room and a wind-protected terrace alongside a triangular pool that juts out over the landscape with view of the sea, which is less than 1,000 feet away as the crow flies. In total, there are five bedrooms and seven bathrooms.
The finished basement level offers the opportunity to create any number of custom spaces, according to marketing material, including a gym, wine cellar, or state-of-the-art home theater with features that might include special effects such as a vibrating floor and moving walls and seats. The only limits, the developers say, are what’s “physically impossible.” The lower level also includes a showroom garage where cars can be displayed “like works of art.”
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