Brazilian studio Bloco Arquitetos has used prefabricated parts to create a home with two stacked, perpendicular volumes clad with screens in BrasÃlia.
Often called the 350 Home, the 500-square metre residence may be fully opened to mild and views or closed for privateness due to the numerous screens alongside its facet.
BLOCO Arquitetos – which relies in BrasÃlia and run by architects Henrique Coutinho, Matheus Seco and Daniel Mangabeira – designed the home to be constructed within the shortest time doable, choosing a prefabricated module, construction and finishes that allowed for speedy building. It was accomplished in 2022.
The group drew inspiration from the works of architects Harry Seidler and Craig Ellwood.
“The quick building schedule that was anticipated and the shortage of supplies through the finish of the pandemic ended up narrowing down our selection of structural supplies,” the group instructed Dezeen. “We selected the metal construction, because it was the kind of construction that finest tailored to our targets and limitations.”
The home consists of two rectangular bars set on a 350-centimetre grid, offering the design its identify.
The bottom flooring – which runs southwest to northeast – homes the dwelling, eating and kitchen areas, in addition to service areas, an workplace and two small bedrooms. A portion of the plan is reduce out to type a lined porch for the adjoining pool deck on the south facet.
The higher quantity – cantilevering out to the northwest and southeast – holds the bedrooms. A lounge house serves as a touchdown for the staircase and separates the first ensuite from the 2 secondary bedrooms.
Every room on the higher stage options an jap glazed wall to welcome the rising solar within the mornings.
The seven-metre overhangs function a carport on one facet and a lined patio on the opposite, whereas the roof of the lounge is an elevated terrace.
All exterior parts – together with construction, awnings, partitions and stuck joinery – are beige “visually neutralizing or homogenizing every floor.” Solid-in-place concrete and metal decking create the flooring, which masonry partitions completed with plaster and beige paint type the outside shell. The cantilevered ends and soffits are clad in aluminium composite sheets.
The group labored to mix the commercial aesthetic of the metal construction with a “heat and comfy feeling” on the inside. A wood suspended ceiling offers a pure materials aid from the beige, as do particulars like inside doorways, joinery and furnishings.
Apart from the tip and inside partitions, the remainder of the construction is glazed from the ground to the ceiling in near-seamless frames.
“Motorized, retractable and translucent awnings have been positioned over all of the open spans,” the group mentioned. “They permit the entry of pure mild to be managed and the specified privateness to be adjusted.”
When closed through the day, the home seems stable and uninhabited, however at evening, the screens create a lantern impact.
Different current initiatives by Bloco Arquitetos embody a reconfigured Nineteen Sixties residence with translucent partitions in BrasÃlia and a brick home that steps down a hillside in São Jorge.
The images is by Haruo Mikami.
Mission credit:
Authors: Daniel Mangabeira, Henrique Coutinho, Matheus Seco
Coordination: Giovanni Cristofaro
Staff: Giovanni Cristofaro and Victor Machado
Structural design: Vista Engenharia
Lighting: Dessine
Building: Grid Engenharia
Joinery: VÃrgula Zero
Furnishings: Acervo MobÃlia
Paintings: Index Gallery
Window frames: Raveli Esquadrias