Sumit Singhal Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.
Beach house at Ponta do Pulso, Brazil by Arch. Affonso Risi
November 12th, 2015 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Arch. Affonso Risi
The main building, a two floor pentagon plan pavilion (258,80 m²/2 784 ft²), is almost entirely surrounded by the sea.The plan allows disposing 4 bedrooms upstairs opened as verandas to the sea landscape. The fifth vertex is an open space two stories high. The entire ground floor is also designed as a veranda with sliding glass doors.
Servant spaces (kitchen, fireplace, bathrooms, closets, stairs) are in the center of each face of the polygon and also contain the reinforced concrete structural elements and pipes, allowing the five cantilevered vertex of the house.
The entire design is controlled by the Golden Section and the Fibonacci Series.
There are two other pavilions as well: a square plan for employees and another one for guests near the swimming pool.
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