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- Architects: 23 SUL
- Location: Butantã, São Paulo – SP, Brazil
- Area: 153.7 sqm
- Project Year: 2014
- Photographs: Pedro Kok
- Lighting: 23 SUL
- Landscape: 23 SUL , Oficina2mais
- Construction: Empreiteira RRRocha (Raildo Ribeiro da Rocha)
- Management And Building Coordination: 23 SUL
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The commision to design a house in a typical São Paulo neighbourhood context, out of gated communities, demanded that we test the limits of our design philosophy – permeability, openness to surrounding urban space. The result of the reading of these conditions a wide and light space that also shelters the need of enclosure that daily life demands.
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Built for a young couple, the house is placed above street level, organized under a single roof that defines the wide space where the collective activities take place, crossed by the private use masonry block – on top of which is the mezanin, connected by a concrete staircase. The construction is gently closed by a large metal and glass wall, that allows space to be extended to the limits of the plot and also bring natural light, air and the surrounding urbanscape to the inside.
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The mezanin is explicits the “open-to-close” operation that guided the design process: it is simultaneously integrated and detached, creating a spatial modulation that allows socialization or privacy without walls or partitions.
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Regarding materials, the Butantã House results from a intervention in a existing construction, whose fragile structure had to be demolished, leaving only the concrete slab that covers the garage. The new construction is built with masonry, concrete, steel and glass.
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