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- Architects: ArqBr Arquitetura e Urbanismo
- Location: Brasilia – Federal District, Brazil
- Authors: Eder Alencar, André Velloso
- Area: 280.0 m2
- Project Year: 2017
- Photographs: Joana França, Haruo Mikami
- Landscape Architecture: Quinta Arquitetura Design Paisagismo
- Lighting Project: Raquel Rosildete
- Structure: Proest Projetos de Estrutura e Construção Civil Ltda
- Facillities: Alencar Costa
- Cosntruction: Hélder Rossi
- Woodwork: Prime Armários
- Locksmith: Ferrotec Esquadrias Metálicas
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From the architect. The house is located in a quiet area of Brasilia’s outskirts. The aim was to construct a 300m² single story house to be mostly used during weekends, providing spaces for leisure and socializing.
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The major challenge was to distribute storehouse in a reduced plot area shaped in a trapezoid form and open to the greenery as much as possible.
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Ground Floor Plan
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The house’s footprint comes from the idea of organizing the occupation of the land in two different volumes. The first volume disposes the spaces in a linear wayrepresenting the more intimate sector of the house. The second concentrates on the social sector, such as the meeting places. Intentionally, both volumes are articulated creating a square turned to the inside, which provides privacy to the owners.
Longitudinal Section
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Cross-Section
The composition of the façades and the materials chosen reveals the inside spaces: the concrete corresponds to a more intimate area; the wooden slats allow permeability to the spaces enclosing the social area; the meeting areas are simply composed by open spaces framing the outside landscape as portraits.
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