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HOOD Office / gru.a

Susanna Moreira — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:03:00 +0000

The reinforced concrete columns, revealed by removing the plaster, and the green epoxy floor (evoking the versatility of sports venues) serve as the foundation upon which lightweight structures define distinct settings to accommodate 20 people.

Lets Fly Biofactory / gru.a

Andreas Luco — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0000

The architectural project for the pioneering industry in the production of protein based on black soldier flies (bsf) was guided by the strategy of producing two autonomous construction systems.

House in Barra Funda / gru.a + LINHA Arquitetura

Andreas Luco — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:00:00 +0000

This project involves the adaptation for residential purposes of a narrow and deep urban plot (5mx20m), which combined the renovation of a pre-existing house and the design of a new construction at the back.

House in Gávea / gru.a

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0000

This project occupies a plateau bordered by a stretch of Atlantic forest in Rio de Janeiro. This small social space is defined by the implementation of cyclopean concrete walls that organize living areas.

Baixo Shelter / gru.a

Andreas Luco — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 15:00:00 +0000

The “Abrigo Baixo” is part of 3 projected buildings on a site in the valley of the vines, region of Rio de Janeiro: “Pavilhão” (the first to be constructed, in 2016), “Abrigo Alto” and “Abrigo Baixo” planned in 2019 and finalized in 2022. Each of them has 30m2 of interior area and has a space reserved for sleep - closed off with a light curtain - a room connected to the front deck, a small kitchen, and a fully equipped bathroom.

Academia Shelter / gru.a

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Taking advantage of a pre-existing eucalyptus structure (which delimits a small soccer field) we designed a simple shelter in polycarbonate tile, bamboo and galvanized steel tubes.

Abrigo Alto / gru.a

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000

“Abrigo Alto” is part of a set of 3 buildings designed by the crane for a site in Vale das Videiras, in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro. “Pavilhão” (built in 2016), “Abrigo Alto” and “ Abrigo Baixo” (built in 2022). Each one, with 30m2 of internal area, has a reserved space for sleeping - closed by a light curtain -, a room connected to a front deck, a small pantry and a complete bathroom.

Exhibition Project “Raio que o parte: Fictions of the modern in Brazil” / gru.a + Juliana Godoy

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 02:00:00 +0000

The show Raio que o Parta, shown between February and August 2022 at Sesc 24 de Maio, in downtown São Paulo, reflects on the notion of "modern art" in Brazil beyond the 1920s and on the protagonism often attributed by art history to São Paulo and to artists from the Southeast axis. Curated by Aldrin Figueiredo, Clarissa Diniz, Divino Sobral, Marcelo Campos, Paula Ramos, and Raphael Fonseca and consulting by Fernanda Pitta, the exhibition seeks to rethink this centrality, in the year in which the 100th anniversary of the Modern Art Week - held in Theatro Municipal de São Paulo in 1922, a few meters from the 24th of May - through the exhibition of more than 600 works by artists from all regions of the national territory.

Caracol Bar / gru.a

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Intervention in an old warehouse located in Vila Buarque (SP) to implement a bar and a restaurant. The project sought to emphasize the qualities of the pre-existing building combining them with new structures designed especially for the place: bar, kitchen, service areas, bleachers and terrace.

Vineyard Pavilion / gru.a

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 03:00:00 +0000

The project for the pavilion started from the premise of providing open space and, at the same time, protected from the strong sun and rain that affect the region. Located on a pre-existing plateau, the building was designed regarding its relationship with the existing house and with the valley on which it lies, activating the intermediate space between the two buildings while offering a new view of the lush local geography. The spaces are organized by four structural modules of identical measures: 3x4.5m, each with 13.5m² of area.

Riposatevi Installation / gru.a

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 19:00:00 +0000

RIPOSATEVI (take a rest) is an installation designed by the architect Lúcio Costa for Milan's Triennial of Architecture, held in the fateful year of 1964. In 2018, the work is presented for the first time in Rio de Janeiro and inside a museum of visual arts - the MAC of Niterói, designed by Oscar Niemeyer.

The Beach and the Time Installation / gru.a

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 14:00:00 +0000

"The beach is the place of leisure, work, meetings, sexuality, repression, sleeping, playing, the place the sun and much more. A territory of instability, transformation, and uncertainty. Its thin sand soil forms and deforms to the taste of time and according to desires. One person or several? The crossing of footprints confuses ourselves, indicates multiple possibilities, hypotheses that occupy the imaginary and defy the possibility of prediction. As the day goes on, so do the wind and the tide so that, at dawn, the territory becomes available again, always open to what will come. The beach makes you think about time, about a way of being and not being ".