ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1136381/un-comfortable-rooms-reflections-on-an-award-winning-favela-house Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:07:00 +0000 Amália Cristovão dos Santos, Ana Carolina C. dos Anjos e Amanda Resende Castilho https://www.archdaily.com/1136381/un-comfortable-rooms-reflections-on-an-award-winning-favela-house At the crossroads, three women with their histories and ancestries seek to overcome the challenge with a necessary padê: the construction of a narrative that attempts to purge from the epistemic rubble certain questions born from observing how people reacted to the fact that a "chic favela dweller" received an international award. The case (and tale) in question is the award in the "Houses" category of ArchDaily's international Building of the Year 2023, which was granted to "Kdu's Shack"—a house that expresses planning, design, exposed concrete, exposed brick, beauty, and poetry, but... From its inception, it has been a house "out of place"—and this caused discomfort. In this text, we address these (dis)comforts and materialities; the disputes over narratives; what is "out of place" and who does the classifying; territory; design; aesthetics; gingas; the delegitimization of self-discourse, and other intersections.

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