São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brasil
Obra Arquitetos studio created a contemporary two-level residence by taking advantage and making clever use of the steep slope existing on the plot.
This project was short-listed for a 2021 International Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The house project sought to exploit the relationships with the land to the maximum, surrounded by vegetation and with an intense connection between the interior and exterior space.
The site has a steep slope terrain and the program in the house requested was relatively small concerning the site area.
Thereby, the building was located in the center of the lot and distributed on two levels.
At the top, a sinuous slab creates spaces and houses the service programs, garage and collective use areas, all frankly open to the outside.
The slab design and some structural walls characterize the kitchen, living, and leisure spaces without creating very rigid barriers between environments so that users can enjoy freedom, amplitude, and great interaction between ambiances and programs in the house.
The most intimate level, where living space and four bedrooms are housed, is designed downstairs.
Taking advantage of the land slope, its roof slab serves as a floor to a flat square upstairs and leaning against a prop wall on one side, allows the opening and direct connection of rooms with a garden and a lake on the other side.
The lake was built so that, besides its beauty, it could serve as a reservoir for the irrigation of the garden, taking advantage of the rainwater and favoring the drainage of the land.
The house was all built-in reinforced concrete molded-in loco, exploiting the plastic possibilities of the material, mainly on the upstairs roof slab, and considering the good technical performance when the architects create backboards and waterproofing roof structures for the volume of the rooms.
Project: HOUSE LLF
Architects: Obra Arquitetos
Client: Felipe Bruno
Contractor: Truzzi Engenharia
Photographers: Nelson Kon and Pedro Mascarov
