Moenda's House

Joanópolis, Brazil

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Moenda's House

Joanópolis, Brazil

Firm

Felipe Rodrigues Arquiteto

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2017

SIZE

500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft

Photos

Pedro Vannucchi (2)

The 20.000 m2 terrain in the countryside of São Paulo was the first to be used as a recently allotted farm. With around 70% occupied by untouched woods reservation, the lot is in the highest point among the others, with a wide view to the horizon ahead and protected by part of the Mantiqueira Mountain in the posterior portion.
The program presented by the client suggested the construction with two independent and interconnected blocks. The first one, more frequently used, is destined to the organization of day by day life of the owners and second, the guests.
Starting point, the main block concentrates the most utilised part of the house. In the inferior level, between two slabs in reinforced concrete, it’s the living room, TV room and the kitchen. In it there are also terraces covered in generous swings, separated from the internal area by glass panes and sliding doors from the floor to the ceiling. This option allowed big openings and ventilation, and more than anything, made possible one of the project’s main aspiration: bring the landscape inside.
In the same block, in the middle level, there are two suites, and on the superior level, a little studio with a terrace with a wooden floor. Still on the superior level, the bombs and water tanks are separated by a blind wall. The pool with infinite border, turned to the greenery, complements the main volume’s area.
The guest block houses two suites, a space for meals and service areas. Under the extension of the rooftop slab of this block is the garage, which is a point of articulation and distribution of the circling, and accesses between the two volumes of the house. In this point, it’s important to highlight the use of leaked elements in the dorms’ circulation, bringing natural light and permanent ventilation, standardising the long line of the facade, also producing an interesting light and shadow visual effect to see.