Louzada House

Tramandaí, Brazil

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Louzada House

Tramandaí, Brazil

Firm

GALERIA 733

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2023

SIZE

3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

BUDGET

$100K - 500K

Louzada House was built on the south coast of Brazil, in the Maritime Condominium, in Tramandaí. The lot is surrounded by exuberant native vegetation on the north and west faces; in the south, an extensive lagoon can be seen on the horizon. Two fundamental requests guided the design decisions: that the house be really private, not exposed to the street, and that the views of the trees and the lagoon be maximized.

To this end, a formal strategy was adopted that articulates two wings arranged longitudinally on the ground, containing, respectively, the social area, on the west, and the intimate area, on the east. Between the wings, there is pedestrian access: an axis ended by an internal garden, the latter a kind of ambulatory that brings together the different social spaces. A veranda forms the northwest quadrant of the composition, diagonally extending the interior domains in relation to the trees; the garage accommodates itself as a subtraction of the social wing, in the southwest corner. A small mezzanine is located on the upper floor, over the intimate area. Finally, the terrace, over the social area, provides the enjoyment of an exceptional nature: the sky, the sun, the water, the green.

The predominance of apparent concrete and exposed brick is deliberate in order to characterize a non-urban residence, a mixture of beach house and country house. In this context, the use of natural wood is also important to define the typical character of this type of residence. On the other hand, such rusticity was tempered by the sophistication of certain interior finishes, as well as by the technological closing systems, installations and air conditioning, guaranteeing comfort to residents as if they were in the city.

Conceived like a human body, this project synthesizes the search for harmony between proportion, comodulation and molding (modénature), principles and ancestral qualities of architecture. The equivalence between the measures of its constituent elements - the proportion - is the cause of the plastic emotion that emanates from this house. The harmonic confrontation of the members with each other and of these with the whole - the comodulation - is observed in the composition of the facades: the north and south one, analogous, are somewhat intimate, and exhibit the forcefulness of the blind gables where it is hidden the roof; on the east one, physiognomic, the full predominate over the empty, these being like elements of the face; in contrast, the west one is exuberant, open to the forest, where the profusion takes sides. Finally, the appropriate plastic treatment of each element itself - the molding (modénature) -, instance in which the architect is a sculptor, guided each step in the composition process.

Unequivocally contemporary, even so, Louzada House is based on the tradition of modern architecture, for its formal, material and spatial references; project in which an attempt was made to materialize the harmonious alliance between human life, nature and architecture.

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Louzada House

Tramandaí, Brazil

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Louzada House

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