AK HOUSE

The clients, a couple with three children, bought two plots that had no flat land in Angra dos Reis, at Iate Clube dos Santos. Bernardes Arquitetura’s main concern was to place the house in the most subtle way possible on this totally sloping terrain, so that it would be completely integrated with nature and could barely be seen from the sea. For this, we made the wood cladding and the entire structure in corten steel.

To create the maximum flat area to receive the family and not to attack the existing vegetation, three floors were created as a cascade effect. On the first arrival floor we had a living room with gourmet kitchen, a nice round table and a group of Moles armchairs. On this floor is the largest balcony, with sun loungers and a swimming pool across the side of the house.

The second floor is further back than the first, allowing a totally clean view and receives the main living room, dining room, master suite, balcony and service area. The first floor pool needed a super reinforced structure and in order not to compromise the proposed lightness, we made an inclined beam that disguises the double depth of the pool and makes the second floor’s height higher.

On the third floor are the rooms for the children and guests, a mini pantry and home theater. The clients left us free to propose the best ideas for the terrain and suggest the spaces.

RHG HOUSE

This house was designed to be the vacation residence of a couple with children. Located in Guarujá, at São Paulo coast, the house has a constructed area of 1000 square meters and was designed in 2009 by Bernardes Arquitetura. One of the main questions was the inclination of the land. The solution was to raise pillars of armed concrete, supporting the metallic structure that supports the two floors. Apparently decoupled from the ground, the house has a steel structure with wooden doors and windows.

The wood appears with prominence in the construction, mainly in the internal area, as in the lining of the superior floor. In this floor, beyond the kitchen, there are the living room and dining room that lose its borders when the doors slide and open for a solarium and the swimming pool. It reveals, then, a great area integrated with the vegetation and the sea, where the view is free of interferences thanks to the body glass guard. The inferior floor is protected and reserved to shelter 5 suites, tv room, deck with spa, sauna, and a pantry.

The interior design was developed with functional solutions. Drawn with the same characteristics of the lining, wooden furniture covers the living and dining rooms and arrives until the kitchen, connecting the three spaces. Another prominence is the suspended and revolving fireplace created by Dominique Imbert, of the French company Focus and the “Jangada” armchair designed by Jean Gillon.

AB HOUSE

CONTAINER ART

MTL HOUSE

Set on a predominantly flat plot in a residential condominium in Paraty city, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, the MTL House was designed with the aim of balancing levels of privacy and integration. Built on a prefabricated structural system, the residence is built on two floors from a steel pillars grid, wooden eaves, and closures in wooden brises and muxarabis panels, ensuring speed construction, rationalization and low waste production.

Arriving by the street, the visitor is faced with an essentially protected house, with architectural elements that ensure a certain level of privacy. The ground floor has two suites, a small service suite, TV room, and a kitchen integrated into the social areas – dining room and living room.

Unlike the facade, closed and protected, the back area of this residence opens up to the view of the forest around and beach, allowing visual and physical permeability between the interior and exterior. From this, the extensive deck area, punctuated by trees, the right side portion is intelligently broken, from the extension of the social block, which in turn, generates the space of the living room and a new courtyard. It is also important to mention that this design intention, enabled the pool to have uncovered and covered areas.

In the interior, iconic pieces of Brazilian Design make up the space, such as the Radar armchair and Rio chair by Carlos Motta and Atibaia chair by Paulo Alves. The upper floor has four suites, including the master suite, which receives a wooden private deck over the living room roof. As security and protection, but guaranteeing functionality, the traditional railing is replaced by a bench with the same wood as the floor.

In this project, the eaves, an architectural element often present in Brazilian architecture, instead of a single surface, are drawn from a square grid, by the juxtaposition of the laminated wooden beams, which generates the choreographed drawing of the shadow.

RA HOUSE