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Architects: gruta.arquitetos
- Area: 3584 ft²
- Year: 2024
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Photographs:Daniel Santo
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Manufacturers: Dellacor, Design Decor, Ecoportinari, Escritório da Luz, Kohler Bauru, PP Paineis, Petra, Sandrin, Tektron, Tetto Lógico
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Lead Architects: Paulo Renato e Gabriel Santiago
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Text description provided by the architects. The house project was developed to accommodate the couple and their 3 children. Situated on a 620m² plot within a gated community, careful planning was employed to ensure that the compartmentalization allowed mandatory setbacks to integrate with social use spaces.
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By concentrating the private areas into a longitudinal block, it was possible to define the layout, and the starting point emerged.
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The family engages in an integrated dynamic, practicing music, visual arts, and gastronomy. Occasionally, these activities happen simultaneously, and the suggestion of a permeable social environment facilitated communion between these practices.
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The social area encompasses virtually the entire functional program of the house, with an office/studio and a living room/music room connected by a clearing with a jabuticaba tree and an adjoining kitchen/barbecue area, transitioning to the backyard where the pool and TV room are located.
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The lateral walls were replaced with windows to bring the garden inside and extend the living spaces outside, blurring the boundaries between indoor and outdoor environments.
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A lower height standard was used compared to the surrounding buildings as a visual permeability block, with a single-plane slab creating an uninterrupted ceiling sequence for those moving through the areas, culminating in a definition of materiality with natural elements and pure surfaces, subtly interacting with the architecture of the space.
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