Article source: Vilela Florez

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.

Image Courtesy © Guillermo F. Florez

• Architects: Vilela Florez
• Project: Bamboo House
• Location: Pipa Beach, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
• Photography: Guillermo F. Florez, Maira Acayaba
• Lead Architects: Mariana Vilela, Daniel F. Flórez.
• Gross Built Area (square meters or square foot): 180sqm
• Completion Year: 2017

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