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Granja Viana House / Gui Paoliello Arquiteto

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Located at a densely wooded lot in the Granja Viana neighborhood, on the outskirts of São Paulo, the project consists of renovating and adapting an existing building, at the bottom of the lot, and inserting a new volume at the front, taking advantage of the existing clearing and hosting the social functions of the house.

RD House / Belluzzo Martinhão Arquitetos

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 09:00:00 +0000

The points that were most decisive for the development of the project were: the steep slope of the land, the beautiful view to the horizon and the limited budget of the clients. Usually terrain with steep slopes generates higher costs in the works due to the need of retaining walls, but since we had a budget limit, we tried to take full advantage of the natural terrain profile, in order to avoid large structural reinforcements that generate high costs. Thus, the house has an inverted concept, the main access is through the upper floor of the house, in which are distributed in a fully integrated social environments and service area, this floor is covered by a light black metallic cover.

Cotia Library Garden / IPEA

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:00:00 +0000

The design of this private library has started from a requisite of space from a bibliophile: to organize and expose a collection of books previously confined in boxes. It was proposed a dialogue between daily habits cultivated in a pre-existing house and a large garden area available.