Carapicuiba House / Angelo Bucci + Alvaro Puntoni

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Carapicuíba, Brazil
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  300
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2007
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Nelson Kon
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Deca, PERI, Perfilor
  • Structure: Ibsen Pulleo Uvo, Ruy Bentes
  • Services: Mauro Rodrigues Pinto
  • Landscape: Klara Kaiser
  • Construction: Alexsandro Bremenkamp
  • Collaborators: Ciro Miguel, Fernando Bizarri, Juliana Braga
  • City: Carapicuíba
  • Country: Brazil
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Carapicuiba House / Angelo Bucci + Alvaro Puntoni - Facade
© Nelson Kon

Geographic conditions

The most remarkable feature of the site where the house is located is its depression, in topographical terms. From the street, we cannot clearly see its ground level because the ground surface falls abruptly into a little valley and woods: a stage 6 m below.

Planta 1° Pavimento

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Programmatic requirements

Project proposition

The different levels offered by the site were utilized to arrange the two main programs.

Carapicuiba House / Angelo Bucci + Alvaro Puntoni - Facade, Windows
© Nelson Kon

The street level was kept free of any enclosed space, it is a kind of "pilotis" with two different areas: the first one is on the ground, very close to the street, and the other one is aerial, as a roof terrace over the building. A bridge, made of steel, connects these two areas. The only entrance to the building is the bridge with its steel grid floor that leads over the open space: downstairs to the house or upstairs to the office.

The house is divided into two levels, both below the street level. Its spaces are integrated with the woods, valley, gardens, and pool located at the ground level. The house incorporates the outside nature indoors: a sliding glass door opens the living room into the terrace,creating one large space. The bedroom and the patios can also be integrated at the lower level.

Carapicuiba House / Angelo Bucci + Alvaro Puntoni - Facade
© Nelson Kon

From the street level, the office is located upstairs. Its dimensions, 3 m wide and 25 m long, making it look like a tube open at both extremities. Therefore, the windows offer new views: more landscape than patios, and more panoramic than an intimate space.

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© Nelson Kon

The "tube" only rests over two columns. Reinforced concrete supports the whole building. Besides its materials, concrete and glass, this house is essentially designed based on the site's geography and landscape. So few elements mean more concentration on the required work during its construction process. It makes it easier to control the budget and it help us focus on the necessary steps to build the house.

Carapicuiba House / Angelo Bucci + Alvaro Puntoni - Stairs, Facade, Handrail
© Nelson Kon

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Cite: "Carapicuiba House / Angelo Bucci + Alvaro Puntoni" 05 Apr 2009. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/18679/carapicuiba-house-angelo-bucci-alvaro-puntoni> ISSN 0719-8884

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