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Architects: Luiza Jung Arquitetura 360
- Area: 115 m²
- Year: 2021
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Photographs:Gabriel Konrath
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Lead Architect: Luiza Jung
Text description provided by the architects. The natural landscape is the main protagonist in this 115m² intervention. The project arose from the need to provide infrastructure for the Casa da Mata event space, located on the property of more than 20 hectares of the Hotel Parador Hampel, in São Francisco de Paula - RS. The place, which is in the middle of the native forest, is the setting for the gastronomic event A Ferro e Fogo, which takes place weekly; and it is also a stage for private events.
The challenge was to insert a set of toilets that could serve the events and that added to the hotel as a space of experience, resignification, and respect for nature. For this, the design of the architecture in its implantation, forms, and materials was premised on the understanding of the natural potential of the place. The starting point was the definition that the existing vegetation would remain preserved and that the proposal should adapt to the natural environment.
Around a majestic araucaria tree, we proposed a circular platform raised above the ground, and walkways are traced that enter the forest and take the user to the chosen intervention site. In a semicircle, the wooden volumes that hold the sanitary units are arranged. These, in turn, were designed individually to facilitate layout distribution among the trees; and have a trapezoidal shape that widens on the glazed side facing the forest, offering privacy and an exclusive view of the interior of each cabin. At the ends of the semicircle are sets of washbasins that, in a simple gesture, reflect the green surroundings next to the user's face. The site does not have built coverage, instigating the delimitation of built and open spaces.
The project seeks a dialogue with nature and mimics it through a living space that transforms over time. The passage of hours is perceived by the play of light and shadow in the volumes, as well as the passage of days is evidenced in the textures and colors of the materials adopted. This space is an invitation to reconnect. An invitation to rethink the relationship between being, nature, and architecture.
