ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/994102/nuu-motel-rodape-arquitetura Sat, 13 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Pilar Caballero https://www.archdaily.com/994102/nuu-motel-rodape-arquitetura The Nuu.Motel project was born out of a research instigated by the desire to make the original demand (a simple renovation of a « classic » motel from the 2000s) not just any interior renovation. Far from comprehending interior design as something  « minor », the design strategy behind Rodapé_ architecture office’s practice roots from the understanding that it is not possible to do architecture without research, going further: architecture and language can be intertwined, creating a fertile field of pre-existence – being them material, tectonic, but also linguistic or imagery – and turning them essential. From then on, two main demands emerged for the conceptualisation of the project: understanding the place of the word "motel" in the common brazilian imaginary, and guiding the renovation so that it did not have an exorbitant price - customer restrictions.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1127677/popular-architectures-in-the-backlands-of-bahia-social-economic-and-political-perspectives Sun, 03 Oct 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Pedro Levorin https://www.archdaily.com/1127677/popular-architectures-in-the-backlands-of-bahia-social-economic-and-political-perspectives Numerous houses with platibanda (parapet) facades can be seen across urban and rural areas in the sertões of Bahia. Many of these are clad in porcelain tiles and feature iron grates alongside metal doors and windows. This recurring pattern can be understood as a cultural phenomenon: the constructions discussed here were documented in towns, districts, and villages across the municipalities of Monte Santo, Uauá, and Curaçá in 2019.

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