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Architects: Apiacás Arquitetos
- Year: 2012
Text description provided by the architects. The project is a renovation in a house designed in the 1950s. Due to its various transformations and the difference of uses required, we radically intervened the existing space.
The first step was the demolition of a small guest house to create a larger open area with gardens and swimming pools. Aiming at a more honest relationship with the outside area, we demolished the walls of the ground floor and restructured the space: the steel beams are supported on new perimeter walls built with demolition material.
The new ground floor supports an upper volume, treated in a lighter way, white, with the private program: office and bedrooms. The connection between the floors is marked by a new staircase and also by the residual void from the old staircase.
Thus, the home ultimately gets more natural light and ventilation.
