Brazilian architect Marcelo Couto and panorama designer Rodrigo Oliveira have created a cantilevering home with a number of courtyards and an inside staircase with a slide hooked up in Fazenda da Grama, São Paulo.
The concrete home with delicate picket screens and heavy weathering metal parts is named the Serra Residence. Situated in Fazenda da Grama, São Paulo, the 12,809-square foot (1,190-square metre) home was accomplished in 2022.
The home consists of three linear sections: two operating parallel north to south on the bottom flooring and the third stacked on prime crossing the decrease flooring, making a U-shaped plan.
“The mission was constructed upon the problem offered by the purchasers’ program: two twin brothers and their households with youngsters of various ages, all needing to share and revel in the home concurrently whereas preserving personal areas,” Marcelo Couto Structure instructed Dezeen.
“Unbiased, parallel, and overlapping blocks with outlined makes use of create constructed, semi-covered, and open areas, integrating with lush gardens, water mirrors, decks, swimming pools, all in full concord.”
The plan is organized into three ranges. The bottom stage is semi-buried within the website’s slope and incorporates a storage, versatile area and repair areas.
The principle stage is split into two halves.
The bigger bar on the north part options two structural finish partitions and 4 massive columns.
Ground-to-ceiling glazing runs alongside either side making a breezy, light-filled area for dwelling, eating, and sitting by the big fire.
Two staircases float inside the area and have slides that playfully drop down into the underground stage.
The smaller bar on the southern aspect of the plan stacks three-bedroom suites alongside a protracted hall, adopted by a sauna with a personal backyard, and ends in a kitchen.
These decrease sections are related by an expansive coated outside kitchen and eating space.
Above, the crossbar incorporates one other four-bedroom suites with both finish cantilevering over the primary stage with portal-like balconies.
“The concept was to create an answer that harmonized with the terrain utilizing transparencies, a fluid relationship between inside and exterior, addressing pure air flow, daylight, and controlling excessive temperatures within the area by means of using louvers, dense landscaping, beneficiant eaves and water mirrors,” the staff stated.
Predominantly completed in uncovered concrete and glass, the house additionally options untreated wooden cladding and shading screens.
The retaining and shutting partitions are fabricated from multi-coloured basalt and white cement to provide texture and tonal selection.
Rodrigo Oliveira Paisagismo designed the landscaped areas as “a lush tropical backyard that deconstructed the straight traces of the structure and embraced the home, bringing visible and thermal consolation,” the panorama studio instructed Dezeen.
Throughout the sloping, tree-lined property are 5 distinct gardens and 5 particular person water options.
On the northwestern aspect of the lounge part, a garden results in an oblong lap pool and a sizzling tub.
The central courtyard options lush plantings that transition to a tranquil reflecting pool, spanned by a boardwalk on the northeastern aspect of the plan.
A personal linear backyard runs alongside the southeastern perimeter of the home, accessed by means of the bedrooms.
On the higher stage, two shallow troughs – or “water mirrors” – run alongside the roof of the lounge bar, making a water-framed terrace with a planted roof and a fireplace pit. The roof of the bed room bar can be planted.
“The success of this mission undoubtedly lay within the good concord among the many architectural, structural, and landscaping professionals and tasks,” the staff stated.
Additionally not too long ago accomplished in São Paulo is a renovated brick home with a pub within the basement by Goiva.
The images is by Maíra Acayaba.
Challenge credit:
Architectural Design: Marcelo Couto Structure
Structural Design: Modus Engineering
Installations Design: Etip
Landscaping Design: Rodrigo Oliveira Landscaping
