Once we got to know the land that is in the city of Brasilia, we were impressed by the natural wealth of the region. The place has so much native forest, that it seems that the houses of the region are intertwined with the forest.
Our goal was to make a project inspired by the characteristics of the forest with the interlacing of the house with nature.
A masculine, sophisticated and timeless design was the request of the client – a young English businessman who had recently arrived in Brazil and was an admirer of the office’s work.
Starting from an excellent existing structure, a 332 m2 new apartment delivered by the construction company, targeted changes were made to the blueprint to guarantee the fluidity and integration of the spaces.
Located in the cosmopolitan district of Batel, in downtown Curitiba, Orna Café was idealized by sister bloggers looking forward to diversify their industry. As they decided to open a coffee shop, they gathered sponsors and supply partners, which were a limiting factor that influenced in the construction of the final architectural environment proposal. Finally, the partner architects from Moca Arquitetura, Ana Sikorski and Kátia Azevedo, conceived a design based on elements found in Curitiba’s acknowledged architecture, combined with a contemporary footprint.
An old building in Brasilia designed by Oscar Niemeyer – which in its last years functioned as a school – was reactivated with the purpose of hosting new projects.
One of them is the Studio hundred and 7 N, proposal of the Debaixo do Bloco Architecture to receive a cosmopolitan client who lives alone, receives friends and travels a lot.
In an old classroom of 8.50 m long by 8.00 m wide and Ceiling height of 3,20 m the architect Clay Rodrigues proposed a layout that distributes Living Room, Kitchen, Home Office, Bedroom and Bathroom connected.
The community center of Cambury is a building by and for the local low-income community of Cambury, built as a social development project. The project, started in 2004 (first part of the center) , is still active in 2018 (community bakery) and is run by the local community members in the form of a cooperative and local association.
While CRU! in the form of the bamboostic-project offered technical assitance and finances to the building, the community decided all of the content and program of the building and its different parts built in different times over the last 10 years. The community decided that the first building was to be a community center to hold gatherings, while following years other parts such as a computer-room, library, pré-school, cooperative building-instruments storage room, surfboard storage room, association-office and last completed a community bakery.
The house project is divided in two blocks. The social area is located at the front section as a kind of porch with large dimensions (12m width and 3,5m height), which opens to the outside area where are located the pool, deck and lawn. The intimate block, at the back section is lower than the social, creating a variation on the house volume, which guarantees a lower height to master suite and other two bedrooms.
Few traits define the architecture of Paes Leme house. Two blocks define the entire project. The house is grounded and has its volume and carved details that enable a softness of its set. The eaves are generous and sloping. The volumes are finalized by loose walls leaving the architecture more flowed and authorial. Some other walls are extended. Among the slab covering and closing walls, a recess runs along the perimeter. The floor is also loosened soil. These details give autonomy and identity for the facades.
The 70 sqm apartment designed for a young couple, consists basically of a unique volume of “Pau Ferro” wood that houses almost all the functional spaces of the apartment, sectorizing the spaces and organizing the circulations. The dormitory can be hidden or revealed by the curtain, whose function is to separate the private spaces from the social spaces in a non-rigid way, which can happen according to necessities and occasions.
Article source: Murilo Sgorlon Arquitetura e Design
The Santonofre bar is located in the heart of the city of São José dos Campos / SP – Brazil, in a flat area.
The bar was designed with a good acoustic treatment. The lounge has a good space to do two types of business, bar time and great parties.
Constructed in steel frame and covered with glazing and cement slabs. Inside the bar and on the facade design have many urban references with the graffiti art of two local artists, Julio Torquetti and Adam Vieira, who have done a wonderful job.
The clients’ idea of an art gallery was that art and nature are intertwined and art should be presented in a natural environment. Throughout the hotel property various art installations can be found. By being in nature one should be more receptive to see and feel art, according to the hotel owner. The art gallery has to host changing exhibitions offering clients a variation of art. This art gallery was built by a community eco-building cooperative that was aided by CRU! Architects. The idea of this social building project was to provide training and job-development for a deprived community. After the community center, commissions were sought outside of the village of Camburi in order to have economic return for the cooperants, of which this art-gallery is an example. The entire bamboo-structure was executed by the local cooperative, whilst the brickwork, excavations and foundations were done by the local workers from the farm which the hotel is located on.
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