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- Architects: GOAA
- Location: Vila Anglo Brasileira, São Paulo – SP, Brazil
- Authors: Guido Otero, Ricardo Gusmão
- Area: 70.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Pedro Vannucchi
- Collaborators: Felipe Barradas, Murilo Zidan, Raul Aguiar
- Engineering: Francisco da Silva Alves
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The strategy to reorganize the program of this house, consisted in taking advantage of its unusual arrangement in order to create a new spatial sequence. The project focused on the transformation of the house facing the street and whose blind facade contained a graffiti made by a neighbor artist and valued by the client.
The starting point was to remove all the existing informal constructions followed by the reorganization of the openings, doors and windows, seeking a more fluid integration between internal and external spaces. The adjustment of the courtyards levels created a more connected open space and made room to a rain water cistern, which required a reconfiguration of the residence´s water supply system.
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Two spatial operations complete the routing: the multiplication of the outdoor space by creating a rooftop terrace and connecting the kitchen to the outside area.
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The new program is contained within wooden volumes in order to make a clear distinction between the old and the new construction. These volumes are also visible from the street, announcing its internal reconfiguration and adjusting its scale to its surroundings morphology.
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