The Triângulo House is created through a simple gesture: four concrete walls and a triangular volume resting on them. The triangular shape that identifies the project is a result of both the shape of the terrain and solar orientation. The great cantilever was made possible using a metallic lattice around the perimeter of the volume.

The ground floor is formed by a longitudinal volume delimited by large concrete walls. This spatial distribution allows much of the lot to be permeable and sets up a garden. Its main access is done through the right side of the site and directs residents to the social area through a corridor. The social area consists of living and dining rooms, located in the center of the ground floor, and is integrated with the external balcony under the cantilevered first floor.

Vertical circulation is done through the organic stairway that connects underground, ground floor and first floor, and is illuminated by a large skylight. This axis created practically in the center of the triangle allows much of the house to receive permanent luminosity during the day.

In addition, the entire upper floor, consisting of the intimate sector, with living room, bedrooms, office and a second service core, is surrounded by large panels of screen-printed glass, which act as brise-soleils. The graphic effect of screen printing, besides giving a movement aspect to the glass sheets, creates an internal environment of privacy, while preserving the view of the garden.

It is the main residence of a couple who decided to flee the rush of the big city to settle 50 minutes away of the capital. They receive frequent visits from their children and grandchildren. The house has three bedrooms, comfortable office, kitchen and social area (living, dining and balcony integrated) on the ground floor. The living room is integrated with the balcony through large glass window frames. On the lower floor are three guest rooms. The clients wanted a practical, single-storey house that had all the amenities they needed to live and work integrated to their everyday environments.

The use of concrete is the trademark of the house. The folding concrete slab, like an origami, establishes the house’s lateral boundary and volume that houses its social sector. The concrete protects the west façade of the residence from afternoon sun, and directs the view toward the east where we have the morning sun and the view of the native forest. All the angles of the project make sense on the terrain and have been designed according to their natural conditions, responding to topography, insolation, ventilation, among others.

Its location provides a pleasant conviviality. The main access connects to the office, important for the couple, where it communicates with the living room, kitchen and outdoor areas of garden and balcony, allowing a simple use of the house throughout the day. The dining and living rooms are integrated with their walls and ceiling in concrete and the wooden furniture to warm the environment. The intimate sector is organized perpendicular to the social one in a metallic pavilion with facades protected by brises-soleils made of cumaru wood. This pavilion penetrates the volume of the social area with the brise-soleils functioning like pivoting doors that separate the kitchen and the dining room.

Peninsula House, a weekend home in a coastal city, explores an intriguing relationship between the privacy and domesticity of its residential program and natural setting. Located at the edge of a gorgeous peninsula on the São Paulo coast, the setting is both widely open to the landscape while being entirely exclusive to the house. There are very few obstacles between the interior, private spaces of the house and the outdoors. This condition allowed the house to offer a level of openness of domestic spaces that a regular, urban one would not be able to.

The house is composed of three stacked abstract volumes which have been delicately positioned on a steep slope overlooking the Atlantic Ocean for minimum topographic impact. It is divided in three parts: the rectangular base and the triangular superior volume, which have more private areas; and the transparent space in-between them where the common areas are located. The suspended triangular volume creates shaded balconies protected from direct sunlight, while the more enclosed and monolithic base provides more intimate spaces. The tension between the two creates negative transparent spaces that visually connect with the landscape.

The interior design was thought to be as pure and simple as the forms of architecture. The team selected furniture by famous Brazilian designers, mostly produced in wood, to compose the surroundings next to the furniture designed especially for the house. Few materials were used to create a quiet and cozy atmosphere, among them, Brazilian freijó wood, which is one of the most prominent materials used in linings, panels and joinery.

The main access is through the ground floor of the basement, where the home theater and the four guest suites are located. It is the most intimate area of ​​the residence. The first floor is the space of social and leisure use, with living room, a small kitchen, balcony and swimming pool. The interior space is fluidly integrated into the exterior, thanks to glass frames and the continuity of the stone used on the floor. The first floor was designed in such a way that it could establish itself as an emptiness between the basement and the triangular volume of the second floor, a large balcony that serves as a meeting point for the whole family.

The second floor has a triangular plant due to the study of insolation. The diagonal was drawn in a north-south direction, so that the facade faces east. At this level are located the master suite and the son’s suite. In addition, these environments are privileged with the best view of the sea. Copper was chosen for the facade because it is a material that will react well to the passage of time. This suspended volume has one of the edges in a large cantilever of nine meters towards the sea, reminding of a large boat. The project demonstrates a unique method to balance the abstract morphological requirements of the spatial concept of the house with the requirements of innovative structural and skin frameworks.

Designed as a leisure retreat in a residential condominium in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, CM House was created taking into account the land’s visuals and integration with the landscaping.

Set back from the street, the front portion gives way to a dense garden. Rectangular plates in White Siena granite juxtaposed irregularly on the lawn create a sinuous design that leads residents inside. On the sides, different species of philodendrons and medium-sized trees make up the space designed in partnership with Isabel Duprat.

Seeking to ensure privacy for residents, the façade of the house receives an opaque lower gable covered in Moledo stone. Above it, the upper volume, in a steel structure with an enveloped tray in corten steel, accommodates a linear flowerbed made up of medium-sized plant species, which protects the interior. The access to the residence is through pivoting doors with greenish copper sheets, resulting from the chemical oxidation process of the material.

With more than a thousand square meters divided into two floors, the project was designed as a veranda-house, and despite the large area, the implementation with an F design, integrated into the garden rich in textures – natural and materials – ensures comfort in everyday life of the residents.

The first wing, parallel to the street, is a larger volume, and concentrates on the ground floor the entrance hall to the center, service spaces to the left (dining room, pantry, kitchen, laundry, living and service bedroom), and leisure spaces on the right (veranda, children’s room, home theater and a guest suite). On the upper floor, for the intimate areas, in the first portion, there are two suites (one with two beds and the second with three) and at the end, a service staircase, while in the second portion there are three suites (one with two beds and two double suites, the one at the end with an L-shaped design and private balcony).

All bedrooms have panel closures with shutters and bifold windows opening in cumaru wood protected by eaves, which provide privacy and natural ventilation. They also receive floor to ceiling glass sheets and a guardrail.

In the second wing, which crosses the main and continuous volume of the staircase perpendicularly, are the living room and gourmet space on the ground floor, while on the upper floor, two suites, the main one at the end: the master suite with individual bathrooms for the couple and closet. The third wing, to the left of the second and with only one floor, concentrates the main gourmet area that accommodates up to 23 people seated, toilet and gym.

A laminated wood marquee attached directly to steel beams and covered by glass connects these last two volumes. This solution allowed the structure to be free of pillars. Sideways, a set of coconut trees and shrubs in the landscaping create rhythm and perspective for the promenade.

The swimming pool with a lane of more than forty linear meters, was placed visually connecting to the condominium lake. It is worth noting that the smaller gourmet veranda partially invades the pool, and receives greenish vertical brises-soleil, in oxidized copper, in harmony with the color palette of water and vegetation.

In the interiors, natural materials predominate, as well as the facades and furniture in wood and straw that bring the coastal atmosphere, such as the Atibaia chair by Paulo Alves, rocking armchairs by Nanna Ditzel, Gervasoni armchair by Paola Navone and sofas by Paola Lenti. The curtains are in linen and sisal rugs, the decorative objects in rattan and wicker.

With a steel structure and closures in prefabricated elements, the construction had reduced time, since it partially became an assembly system; and higher quality of parts.