BUILT
BRASÍLIA -DF, 2013
Finalist “O Melhor da Arquitetura” Award, Editora Abril, São Paulo, 2013
This house is located inside a small gated community. In this context, taken away from the city and far from its urban dynamics we felt the necessity to question the way in which the house would relate to its surroundings. Our answer was very influenced by the context and by the client´s desire and it was to create an architecture that explores the visual heaviness of its masses and is introverted, more closed towards the street and open to the existing backyard. We didn´t have an urban life happening in the street right in front, so we felt we didn´t need to communicate the house with the street directly through transparency or big openings.
Without big openings besides the ones towards the back garden we decided to animate the composition of the house volumes by associating them to the different functions of the program. Internally there is no doors between the bedrooms, living room and services. The transition between these areas is insinuated through the natural light from internal winter gardens. The bedrooms are contained in a sequence of spaces facing the morning sun. Two singular elements stand aside at the top of the composition. They are triangular openings that open the living room to the sky, serving as spaces for sculptures and art. Seen from the street they are the windows of the house.
Authors: Daniel Mangabeira, Henrique Coutinho, Matheus Seco
Colaboration: Rodrigo Scheel, Daniella Rauber, Guilherme Mahana, Victor Silvério, Bruno Pessoa
Area: 470 sqm
Project: 2011
Construction: 2011-2013
Contractor: Gilmar Guimarães
Photos: Haruo Mikami
