Ilha Bela, São Paulo, Brazil
Marcelo Wendel and Rafael Zampini of HUS Arquitetos have designed a private residence in a privileged terrain by the sea, featured by a big slope, the main character in this project planning.
Named Casa Feiticeira, the residence has been recently awarded a 2022 International Architecture Awards Honorable Mention from The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The several volumes of the complex, develop into different floor levels, allowing a more pleasant path down to the sea, where a pier and a wood deck give access to boats.
The main volume, where the bedrooms, living room, and kitchen are located, was designed in a way that all rooms would face the same view.
From that on, a big exterior deck extends with an infinity pool, the most important social area of the house, a perfect place to enjoy a sunset.
Its glass façade and its big bifold doors allow different levels of privacy in each room.
As the proposition of this project was to use all levels in the best way possible, the superior slab, which previously would become a useless space, was transformed into another social area with vegetation.
It is accessed by a metallic catwalk that brings the main car entry to the house roof. This catwalk then transforms into a stair that leads to the main entrance of the house, on the inferior level.
Featured by a minimalist simplicity, the project is limited to 3 different materials, concrete, wood, and glass.
The other two volumes of this complex, the caretaker´s and the guest´s house, maintain the same minimalist principle and have equal sea views, however attending to the privacy needs in each case.
Project: Casa Feiticeira
Architects: HUS Arquitetos
Lead Architects: Marcelo Wendel and Rafael Zampini
General Contractor: HUS Arquitetos
Client: Private
Photographers: Pedro Mascaro
