Django House is a leisure residence for weekends, located in the Metropolitan
Area of Curitiba, 30 minutes from downtown. Implanted in a plot of 12,700 m2, it has a stretch in valley bottom, and a preserved area with riparian forest and forest. The area has been used for some generations for recreational activities, like camping, sports or watching the night sky. It was time to build a place that would house meetings with family and friends, in a more comfortable structure for leisure days and nights.
The house of 150 m2 is divided into three distinct and quite clear parts in the plastic and functional approach to construction. While the larger block in the west houses the private wing of the house - bedrooms and bathroom - the smaller block holds the depot and social bathroom. The gap between these boxes in apparent brick was protected by the metallic covering that covers the social area of the house, living rooms and kitchen integrated in a single space, enclosed by transparent glass cloths to the ceiling. The roof structure, supported on six pillars of apparent concrete, rests 40 cm above the blocks in apparent brick, thus allowing the existence of windows for superior luminosity.
The permeability of the social area allows full visual integration, natural ventilation and spatial continuity. In addition, the transparency that crosses this space, from the north façade to the south façade, shows the social space as the occupation of the remaining area between the two opaque objects. This transversal permeability unites the richest natural visuals of the terrain, establishing a direct and permanent connection between the social sector of the house with natural environment.
The house opens with greater generosity to the back grounds, where a fortunate set of features have converged to provide the best place of residence. The funds are protected from the street and, for this reason, it is more private. It is the place where you have the view of the valley and its preserved forest. In addition, it is where the sun spends the whole day, as it is the north orientation. In this way, in addition to the bedroom windows facing this building, a two-level deck was designed to give continuity to the kitchen and dining activities, extending to the future pool.
The roof in metallic structure received sandwich tiles, with EPS inside, to soften the noise and provide greater thermal comfort. The metal tile allows reduced slopes, with the slender appearance of the cover contained in metal type 'C'. The blank upper outer face reflects part of the solar radiation, while the inner face is specified in black. The wraparound walls are double, in apparent massive brick. The floor of the social area, in smooth cemented, repeats itself on the floor and walls of the bathrooms. In the private area, wooden floors and white walls for clarity and lightness compared to the rest of the house. This is Django House.