Year: 2022 | Location: MS, Brasil | built area: 520m² | Lot area: 1960m²
Compounded by two well defined transversal volumes, the Compounded House ocuppies an uneven land in a strategic way. The dialetics between "see" and "be seen", stablished between the social and intimate area potenciates the integration with the garden.
In this garden, a descendent operative topography was projected and that refers to a bench, as a space of external permanence, where the limit between inside and outside is weakened. The external is qualified as a space of permanence and not just a space to be contemplated.
The connexion tunnel between the volumes is made by successive porticos which qualify the intermediare space betwen them and works as a gap, a breath, a pause. The experience of daily crossing this space permits the physic and symbolic separation of the complementary functions of resting and cohabiting, the client's main request.
The formality of the covers rescues the tradition of the constructions of the area and gives a new meaning to the roof of two waters. In this same logic, the materials that were used, like brick and wood, reinforce the idea of a contemporary project that revisits traditions and is connected with its context.