Brazilian architect Denis Joelsons has accomplished a renovation of a sequence of brick constructions known as Sítio Rio Acima close to São Paulo, together with a major house with a vaulted ceiling and arched clerestory window.

Positioned on the outskirts of Jundiaí, the residential complicated had been used for over forty years by the identical household, changing into a hodge-podge of disparate kinds constructed by totally different generations.

In 2022, Denis Joelsons stitched the 34,425-square metre (8.5-acre) website again along with “a sequence of punctual interventions” that created a way of unity via supplies, whereas preserving the property’s sentimental worth.

The world has a mixture of rural and industrial parts, which Joelsons sought to take care of within the renovations.

The studio renovated and prolonged the first home, which was constructed in 1992, changed a dilapidated wood caretaker’s home and constructed a brand new pool kiosk.

The constructed space totals 329 sq. meters (3,540 sq. toes).

The property’s entrance sits on the lowest level of the location, and an entry highway runs alongside a lake with a stone retaining wall that kinds a parking space and touchdown for the three-bedroom caretaker’s home, which is a low-profile construction with a gabled lap tile roof.

“The caretaker’s home alludes to the Brazilian caipira structure, a vernacular sort of building from the countryside that may nonetheless be present in different homes inside the Sítio’s neighborhood,” Joelsons defined, mentioning the construction’s shaded porch created by two blind volumes as an indication put up for this model.

Additional up the location, the L-shaped fundamental residence – initially a three-bedroom, two-bathroom home – gained two new brick extensions, including a lounge, two loos. To broaden this system, Joelsons divided the primary bed room into two smaller ones.

The house’s new point of interest is the lounge: a brick dice with a ceramic vaulted ceiling and arched clerestory window that turns into “a lantern at night time with its distinctive form notable from an excellent portion of the plot,” Joelsons mentioned.

The extension brings gentle into the dwelling and eating areas and meets the unique home via a deep brick wall.

A board-formed concrete fire sits in a wall of home windows.

The inside has a heat, muted palette with uncooked brick, white paint, and uncovered wood trusses.

The bedrooms all have French doorways that open the house to the veranda, which is shaded by a wood pergola.

Additionally on the location is a brand new spiral-shaped construction that holds a toilet and altering house for the swimming pool.

This kiosk kinds the third level within the triangle of modifications made to the property.

All new constructions are marked by stable, light-coloured masonry. The fabric – beforehand absent on the location – references the world’s frequent brick kilns and the encircling industrial factories and railway constructions.

Beforehand, Denis Joelsons labored with Gabriela Baraúna Uchida to tuck a sloped roof home into the hillside in Mantiqueira Mountains.

The images is by Pedro Kok.

Venture credit:

Architect: Denis Joelsons
Collaborators: João Marujo, Paula Reis
Landscaping: Alexandre Freitas, Leandro Fontana
Structural and basis design: Alfredo Haydamus
Amenities design: Renan de Sousa
Building: Nix Construção
Engineering: Francisco Antônio, Hércules Castagna