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Architects: BLOCO Arquitetos
- Area: 310 m²
- Year: 2017
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Photographs:Haruo Mikami
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Manufacturers: Atlas Concorde, Criarte Esquadrias, Hunter Douglas, Marmoraria Alvorada, Suvinil
Text description provided by the architects. The Franca House is located in na urban plot in one of the residential areas in Brasília, Brazil, called Lago Norte (North Lake). Here the recent low in the rent prices and the estabilization in the prices of the land have favoured a change in the neighborhood´s dwellers profile. The settlement of young families with children besides the occupation of the houses by new residential programs such as student shared houses have increased the density of inhabitants. In our view this transformation creates a new opportunity to reactivate the idea of the house as an extension of the city and vice-versa, which is a way of seeing the public space that was usual for the families that lived there in decades before. Therefore the fundamental idea of the project was to create a strong possibility of connection between the public space (the street) and the private space (the house).
