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Lima House / BLOCO Arquitetos

Valeria Silva — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000

The house is located on a plot in Lago Sul, a residential neighborhood in Brasília. Although the project was designed in 2016, its construction was completed in two phases, the first in 2018 and the second in 2024. One of the premises of the project was to distribute the entire internal area of the house on a single level. This way, the slight slope of the topography is only noticeable in the elevation of the open area around the pool in relation to the natural ground level.

Higienópolis Apartment / BLOCO Arquitetos

Andreas Luco — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0000

The renovation project for this apartment took advantage of the original features of the property, combining them with the needs of the new residents. The analysis of the building's structure revealed that the visible face of the apartment's concrete ceiling did not have a structural function and served only as a type of "finishing ceiling." This allowed for the careful removal of this thin layer, revealing the composition of structural beams that had been hidden before.

114S Apartment / BLOCO Arquitetos

Andreas Luco — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0000

The first home of a couple, Apartment 114S received a renovation project signed by the Brasília office BLOCO Arquitetos, founded by partners Daniel Mangabeira, Henrique Coutinho, and Matheus Seco. The residents’ goal was to transform the apartment into a gathering place for family and friends. With this premise, the three-bedroom property was completely remodeled, creating a large social area with only one suite for the couple. Located in Superquadra 114 in Asa Sul, Brasília, the apartment had its social area expanded, and the kitchen integrated into the living room.

Pupila Clinic / BLOCO Arquitetos

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 14:00:00 +0000

The project of Clinic Pupila, one of the most beautiful initiatives we have ever been a part of, adapted an existing building to house a social center for psychological assistance and collective education, dedicated to the care and development of vulnerable children and their families.

Casa 350 / BLOCO Arquitetos

Susanna Moreira — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 06:00:00 +0000

The project started from the demand for a house that could be built in the shortest possible time. All its modularity, finishing options and choice of structural materials are based on this premise. The option for the use of metal structure was therefore due to the available budget, the availability of raw materials in the market at the time of the project and the speed of assembly of the structure. On the other hand, other secondary items of the work, such as wooden ceilings and ground floors, were assembled and/or built by local labor. Thus, the Casa 350 project combines a predominantly prefabricated construction with small sections built in an artisanal way.

Dante House / Bloco Arquitetos

Susanna Moreira — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:00:00 +0000

The Casa Dante program is organized in an "L" shaped floor plan. While its "internal" facades (bedrooms and living room) are mostly transparent, the facades facing the lot perimeter and the street have few openings.

White Bricks House / BLOCO Arquitetos

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 06:00:00 +0000

The White Bricks House was built in an extremely artisanal way by masons-craftsmen, in a slow and precise process. Although it is a constructive process that is not very widespread in Brasília nowadays, the use of exposed solid bricks has a constructive complexity that requires precision and constructive refinement, elements that are very present in the most representative public buildings of Brasilia.

Giraffas Brasília Office / BLOCO Arquitetos

Andreas Luco — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:00:00 +0000

The headquarters of Giraffas network occupies 500m2 of the boxed area of the National Stadium of Brasilia, the Mane Garrincha. The office was compartmentalized by metal dividers that we designed using a 110cm module.

Beach Complex / Estúdio MRGB + ARQBR Arquitetura e Urbanismo + BLOCO Arquitetos

Susanna Moreira — Fri, 12 May 2023 14:00:00 +0000

The "Na Praia" complex was designed as an entertainment center on the edge of Paranoá, the artificial lake that surrounds the Plano Piloto of Brasília. However, public and direct access to the lake is still very limited, despite recent efforts by the government to improve the waterfront. The uniqueness of "Na Praia" is therefore supported by the intention to definitively appropriate part of the immense water mirror that borders the protected urban project and transform it into a kind of "coastline" in the Federal Capital.

Galeria House / BLOCO Arquitetos

Andreas Luco — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Five large inverted beams structure the 12-meter-wide span of the roof of the central area of the house – the gallery – where most of the family’s collection of paintings is located. It is a meeting space that integrates several functions: living, dining, kitchen, balcony and garage.

Naves House / BLOCO Arquitetos

Andreas Luco — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 17:00:00 +0000

The roof of the Naves House is formed by a sequence of parallel beams and exposed concrete slabs. The misalignments between these elements create crevices that allow direct and indirect natural light to enter.

Fischgold House Renovation / BLOCO Arquitetos

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 14:00:00 +0000

The renovation project of this house built in the 1980s kept and complemented the concrete structure of the lower floor and part of the structure of the existing pool. The roof slab on the upper floor was demolished and replaced by a new one, which made it possible to increase the total area, raise the ceiling height and reconfigure the internal layout.

Berezowski House / BLOCO Arquitetos

Susanna Moreira — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 07:00:00 +0000

The house is located on an urban plot with a slight slope from the street towards the back of the lot. The entire program was distributed on a single floor that is leveled with the public sidewalk, which generated an intentional outcrop of the pool at the back of the house. The pool occupies almost the entire boundary between the house and the backyard. It was designed so that one of the residents, who is a swimming teacher, could teach at home.

Mané Market / BLOCO Arquitetos

Susanna Moreira — Thu, 19 May 2022 01:00:00 +0000

Located in Brasília, between the Mané Garrincha National Stadium and the Nilson Nelson Gymnasium, on the Monumental Axis, the Mané Market project reuses the roof structure of an existing building. The market is a 6 year long temporary installation that will exist until the definitive installation of the future Sports Complex of Brasília at that location, whose construction is scheduled to begin in 2026. Until then, the objective is to take advantage of the existing infrastructure on the site and transform it into a market focused on gastronomy. The existing building was used during the 2007 Pan American Games. However, after that event, its space had been empty and unused for several years.

Palicourea House / BLOCO Arquitetos

Susanna Moreira — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 07:00:00 +0000

The Palicourea House is located in a rural area in the village of São Jorge, municipality of Alto Paraíso de Goiás, directly on a small hill in front of São Miguel river valley, close to the limits of Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, inserted in the country’s second-largest biome, the Cerrado, which covers more than 772,000 square miles, nearly a quarter of Brazil. The Cerrado is the world’s most biodiverse tropical savanna. Thus, the whole project is an experiment about a way to inhabit the region, considering the specificities of the program and its context as well as the possibilities of a sustainable and positive coexistence between humans and nature.

Colina House / BLOCO Arquitetos

Susanna Moreira — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 06:00:00 +0000

The construction was implemented on the highest level of an existing landfill. Its “U” plan organization defines two wings interspersed with a central access garden. In the rest of the lot, almost all the existing trees were kept or relocated.

Law Firm Headquarters / BLOCO Arquitetos + Renata Dutra Arquitetura

Susanna Moreira — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:00:00 +0000

The building for the headquarters of this law firm that works with the renewable energy sector reuses the partially demolished concrete structure of an existing house. The project used a metallic structure and steel deck slabs to expand by 50% the area of the existing construction through additions and “grafts” of parts that were used even in the reinforcement needed to remove pillars from the original concrete structure.

Cavalcante House / BLOCO Arquitetos

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Casa Cavalcante was built in the center of an area of 266 hectares, adjacent to the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park which houses one of the most important biomes in the world: the Cerrado (Brazilian savanna). Therefore, the intention to minimize the impact of the building on its surroundings guided the entire design process. The limited qualification of local labor, the enormous difficulty in accessing the land, the extremely hot climate in the region, and the limited budget for construction were the factors that defined its shape and materiality.