Article source: Une Arquitetura + Arqmais Arquitetura
The trade complex born in a privileged and strategical region for the economic development of the city. The office had the responsibility to design a building that stands out in middle of the built-up landscape of the local.
Due to the client’s need, the dimensions of the land and the floor area ratio of the region be small, the project strategy was to design a building with simple shapes and superimposed solidvolumes.
The DW house was designed for a former client and friend, we had already made the design of his first apartment, and now, with the prospect of increasing family, he gave us the joy of designing his new home.
It is a mass architecture, what you see from the street is a closed and mysterious volume, and an oblique wall leads to the entrance. In the background it is the opposite, the house opens to the yard and the light.
“When you come right down to it, all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. The rest is nothing.” – Picasso.
A great yellow floor slab surrounded by sunlit balconies guided the Cupe houses project, located in a former coconut farm in Pernambuco, northeast Brazil. This design fosters sensations and harmony in its techniques and materials decisions.
The challenge was to build at a hill of unspoilt native forest on one of the most beautiful beaches of the São Paulo’ coast. The house is a suspended structure, made of prefabricated laminated timber (glulam), supported by six pillars and anchored in the ground by the concrete platform of the pool. The ground floor platform that is sheltered by the main volume arrival with space for vehicles, a deposit, a bathroom of service, an technical area. Everything else happens on the upper level, which consists on a large suspended platform, composed of eight rectangular modules of 3,40m x 5,70m. Next to the hill is the pool and the solarium extension made in concrete. A large linear balcony stands in front of the whole room.
The house was designed for a couple (he businessman, she housewife) with two children.
The idea was to greatly value leisure and socializing areas. It is a project of 560m2 that we developed from the beginning, also in a horizontal condominium.
The house has a feature that closely approximates Modernist architecture, which are these lines more straight and minimalist.
We called the house of Cobogó because one of the façades, which opened onto the street, was framed with this “Cobogó Casa”, which is also a drawing of the architect.
The lower part of the house (ground floor) is all integrated with a large investment in the gourmet and leisure area – pool, beach and sauna.
With camouflaged openings C + C House greatly balances the notions of empty and full. Its plot, located in a leafy area in the city of São Paulo, is long and narrow with constructions on the sides, which guided the openings of the house to the front and the back. This solution was chosen not only to guarantee better use of the land but also to guarantee the views, the ventilation and insulation of the interior.
The clients, a couple who spend most of the year sailing on a sailboat through the Mediterranean islands, ask us to design a house in a condominium near a small village of the northeast of Brazil.
Their only conditions were that we should stick to the budget and it should be finished in only 10 months.
Given the limited time granted for design and construction, a simple volume with the rooms is proposed and connected by bridges to an outdoor living area, paved in stone as the traditional Portuguese sidewalks. This living area is protected laterally by two local- stone walls and shaded by a wooden roof.
Located inside the mall, the main purpose of the project was to become a functional, inviting and welcoming place. For this, was used hydraulic floor tile custom with the colors of the mark, which indicates the way to be traveled and rejoice the ambience. The community table allows the sharing between people and maximum use of the space.
This house set in nature is located in the Serra do Cipó, about 100 km from Belo Horizonte. The land has a native cerrado vegetation, characteristic of the region and a slight slope, which allows an impressive view of the mountains. The house is inserted like a horizontal element, loose on ground, and directed to the view. Its implantation takes place in two levels, being in the superior level are located almost all the private spaces and in the bottom are located the spaces destined to the uses of leisure.
The idea for this project located at the Mira Building in São Paulo was to create a contemporary atmosphere and at the same time a place with a ‘home feeling’ with the chosen finishes, materials and furnitur. Delivered on the slab, the Apartment should have three suites, office, living room integrated to the living room and kitchen, home theater, laundry and a generous pantry.
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