A 600-square-meter project
planned for a couple and their two teenage children, in Londrina, Brazil, came through
an acclivitous terrain allocated in three floors. The first floor, built at the
street level, contains the laundry area which cannot be seen due to the span
that forms the garage. Above the garage one can find the living area and the
guest’s bedroom. The big wood brise indicates the stairway that leads to the
house. On the third floor, you will find the bedrooms which face a vast
terrace. The access to the bedrooms is through a long corridor, brightly
illuminated by glass sealed slabs on the ceiling and walls. Light is this
project’s main property. It is free, rich, abundant and generous.
In this house, different
environs are found with total synergy among the different parts of the house. The
dining room, balcony and the home theater have no obstacles between them and
can be closed with glass doors that are allocated in the walls. On both floors
and walls one can easily notice the materials used: cement, bricks and cumaru wood. The furniture never fails
to match couple the precise and economical features of the house yet following
a rejuvenating idea proposed by the family. The materials used either as floor
or wall coatings allow room for a new interpretation to the basic Cartesian
plans. In other words, the material which is supposedly made for walking on can
actually be touched and vice and verse.The house architecture carries
several antagonistic symbolisms – solidity, lightness, cosiness, modernity, warmth,
freshness – and complementary so as to shorten the distance between our dreams
and achievements, an antidote to the boredom of traditional houses.Photographs by Beto Consorte