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Xingu House / TETRO Arquitetura

Nana Dokua — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Xingu House emerges from a careful reading of the site: a terrain composed of natural plateaus, stone walls, and preserved patches of forest. From this irregular geography, the project seeks to understand how architecture could lean on the terrain, open itself to the landscape and build a continuous relationship between the body of the house and the mountain.

Old Golden House / Mutabile Arquitetura

Susanna Moreira — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Located on a steep slope in Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Casa Ouro Velho folds and opens across multiple levels, establishing a continuous and respectful dialogue with the natural landscape and the exuberance of the Atlantic Forest. Designed as a direct response to the topography and surrounding forest, the project is organized into levels that embrace the terrain, establishing a continuous dialogue between architecture and nature, with precise cuts that ensure the preservation of the larger native trees on the lot.

Ternura House - GM / Estudio N.A

Susanna Moreira — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0000

The Ternura House project was born from the intention to create a serene and welcoming refuge, set amidst the greenery of the Passárgada condominium in Belo Horizonte. The main inspiration came from the surrounding environment: the street where the house is located is called Alameda da Ternura, and this name brought the idea of translating into architecture an atmosphere of warmth, simplicity, and integration with the landscape. The key concept was a single-story house, defined by its horizontal layout, that enhances direct contact with the garden and views of the mountains. Natural materials such as stone, wood, and ceramic tiles were chosen to reinforce this identity of a timeless refuge, deeply rooted in the place.

Linho House / TETRO Arquitetura

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Located in a residential neighborhood in Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, the Linho House is more than just a residence—it is a narrative crafted in architecture. Directly inspired by its inhabitant, a fashion designer who works with fabrics and sewing, the house translates the essence of her creative daily life into forms and materials.

TA Residence / Anastasia Arquitetos

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Located in Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Residência TA was designed to integrate seamlessly with the rugged terrain it inhabits. With slopes of 30% horizontally and 20% transversally, the project maximizes land use by stepping towards the slope, minimizing space wastage and reducing the need for earth movement and retaining walls. This approach results in a discreet, horizontal volumetrics that naturally blends into the surroundings.

Castanheiras House / Mateus Castilho + Patricia Bueno

Andreas Luco — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000

The Casa Castanheiras, conceived in 2021, emerges with the mission of providing a welcoming and practical space, perfectly integrated with nature, ideal for celebrating special moments with family and friends. Located in Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, the residence offers the desired tranquility to the family, while remaining close to the center of the state capital. Implementing the house was challenging, having to meet two important legal restrictions. The first, is the servitude area determined by the presence of a high-voltage line from Cemig, leaving only 27 meters of available land from the sidewalk to the beginning of the strip. The second is the obligation to preserve the patch of trees, previously approved by the Secretariat of Environment of Minas Gerais, which occupied the land.

Macieiras House / Mateus Castilho + Patricia Bueno

Valeria Silva — Fri, 31 May 2024 14:00:00 +0000

With the growth and development of the southern sector of Belo Horizonte that meets the various condominiums located in Nova Lima, Casa Macieiras was conceived in 2021 with the initial guidelines of materializing a cozy, practical, and nature-integrated space. The family sought the opportunity to live in a calm and welcoming place with the convenience of being very close to the center of the state capital.

Minas House / studio mk27

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Minas House is Studio mk27’s first project in Minas Gerais, inland Brazil. Right outside Belo Horizonte, which means beautiful horizon, the house hovers above the Minas Gerais mountains. Set on an especially steep site, two concrete slabs draw strong horizontal lines. To lift it up to 10 meters above ground, a sequence of stilts emerges, disguised amidst the tree trunks of the garden that reconstitutes the original rainforest. Drawing a clear contrast with the neighboring pharaonic embankment walls, occupying such a dramatic site, suspending the house on stilts allows for rainwater to drain and for the house to breathe.

House in the Woods / TETRO Arquitetura

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 06:00:00 +0000

The Bosque House is located in Nova Lima/MG, in a site that has a spectacular view of the mountains and vegetation characteristic of the Atlantic Forest. Its intensely sloping topography was decisive for creating the building’s implantation, defining the distribution of environments on three different levels so that the house would better accommodate the terrain.

Açucena House / TETRO Arquitetura

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 14:00:00 +0000

A place immersed in lush Atlantic Rainforest nature. A terrain filled with large leafy trees, foliage, shrubs, birds and wild animals. A challenging topography with a steep slope, characteristic of the Nova Lima region in Minas Gerais. This is the place where Casa Açucena is inserted.

Concrete House / Ângela Roldão Arquitetura

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:00:00 +0000

The Concrete House is the result of an effort to create a beautiful and functional residential project from a simple and rational structure of exposed concrete.

House 7 Pátios / TETRO Arquitetura

Andreas Luco — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 01:00:00 +0000

The 7 Patios House is located in a private condominium in Nova Lima/MG. The site has a slight slope, no vegetation, and is located close to the condominium limits. Right outside this limit is a highway. The noise from cars can be heard from inside the land. Right in front of the land, across the highway, a factory can be seen, so the best views are looking diagonally. From both sides, it is possible to see the forest and the mountains, typical of Minas Gerais.

Do Vale House / Gabriel Castro (MOBIO) + Marcos Franchini (BIRI)

Susanna Moreira — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:00:00 +0000

The Casa do Vale project started from the demand of a couple to build a new residence on a 360m² terrain located in the Vale do Sol neighborhood in Nova Lima, MG.

ChatPay Office / Play Arquitetura

Andreas Luco — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 02:00:00 +0000

Created to host a technology and social media startup called ChatPay, the project preserved and highlighted the two main original features of the space: its concrete structure with ribbed slab and the beautiful view to which the three large windows open. For this, the closed spaces that the program demanded - three meeting rooms, a telephone booth and bathrooms, were located opposite to the large windows. The main meeting room (A) approaches the view and enjoys it, without, however, segmenting or dividing the existing window. The air conditioning, lighting and fire facilities were organized and distributed to be apparent in the open areas.

Shed House / BIRI

Valeria Silva — Fri, 08 May 2020 14:00:00 +0000

The house was designed for a young couple who requested the use of simple materials in a highly legible space so that the family's identity would be reflected by the placement of objects and furniture and by their routine in the new home.

Pasargada House / Bernardo Horta Arquiteto + Meius Arquitetura

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 04 May 2020 16:00:00 +0000

The house is located in a condominium in Nova Lima, a county in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, 25 km from the capital of Minas Gerais. Its simple volume is composed of two rectangular boxes with identical dimensions and external coverings that overlap by a perpendicular design. The contrast between the construction and the presence of the landscape delimits the built space and appropriates the scenery without competing with nature, however assuming human intervention.

Elephant’s Hill House / 24 7 Arquitetura

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 07:00:00 +0000

The privileged view of nature was the core starting point for this project on the mountainous region of Nova Lima, State of Minas Gerais/Brazil. An adventurer couple chose us to create this special project in such an exclusive area.

Valley House / David Guerra

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:00:00 +0000

A couple with two grown up sons approached us having a generous site with an almost 360° view and the idea of building a modern and cozy house. The house needed to be a good place to entertain guests and friends and at the same time maintain the panorama created by the garden. Thus, the house was built with fluid spaces, with generous lighting and crossed ventilation, that could be easily integrated or isolated to be used together or independently changing integration and privacy as needed.