Casa Mercury

São José dos Pinhais, Brazil

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Casa Mercury

São José dos Pinhais, Brazil

Firm

YVA Arquitetura

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2022

SIZE

3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

Located in a small condominium in the city of São José dos Pinhais, 20 minutes from Curitiba, Casa Mercury is home to a young couple and their two children. It has three suites and an office on the upper floor, and a U-shaped space that integrates the living rooms with the kitchen on the first floor, with a service core that houses various functions to support the environments, such as a fireplace, toilet, shelving and barbecue. Inside, it contains the service area and pantry. This central volume on the first floor organizes the spatiality and communication between the rooms.
In order to enhance the perception of the relationship between the first floor and what is above and below it, a continuous approach of material and texture was proposed, in HDPE (or 'ecological wood') profiles, throughout the first floor's external envelope, except for the openings in sliding glass panels facing the back yard. The slatted cladding highlights the small overhang over the garage entrance in the basement, giving the ground floor volume a floating appearance in relation to the ground. It also enhances the white upper volume and its overhang over the main entrance on the first floor. In addition to the difference in material, texture and color between the ground and upper volumes, the slatted lower volume has rounded corners - a proposal facilitated by the nature of the cladding arranged in vertical strips - contrasting with the greater hardness of the right angles in the upper volume. The desired formal result, in the end, is the perception of a game of superimposition and displacement of one mass over another, which has made it possible to have a garden terrace connected to the office on the upper floor.
As it faces the street, the living room's balcony is enclosed by HDPE cladding in eight panels that open up, allowing for flexibility in providing external views and full access to natural light, according to the residents' wishes. The same feature was adopted in the laundry area, where the slatted cladding covers glass windows that also open for access, lighting and natural ventilation. When closed, the HDPE panels provide the desired visual continuity to allow the membrane to be perceived as an uninterrupted covering.
The garage is connected to the access via a staircase under the overhang of the upper floor, unifying both the visitor entrance and routine access. In the dining room, which is directly integrated with the kitchen, sliding glass panels open to connect and integrate with the back garden and access the semi-underground facilities on the boundary, where there is a gym and a spa with an indoor pool under a retractable glass roof.

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