Native studio FGMF has used translucent screens and metallic panels to surround a residence on a sloping web site close to São Paulo.
Situated within the city of Campinas, Casa Brisa stands inside an expansive shell-like construction that protects the residence from inclement climate and the excessive temperatures of the world.
“It’s an investigation into the within and outdoors, the coated and open, the union between gardens and structure in a quiet manner, utilizing easy supplies in an unconventional manner,” mentioned FGMF accomplice Fernando Forte.
The 2-storey, concrete residence, stands beneath an impartial metal construction that helps a flat, corrugated metallic roof and sides comprised of perforated metallic screens.
It has varied openings to accommodate rising timber and permit gentle into the house and gardens beneath.
Giant home windows, screens and sliding glass doorways all through the house open the residence to the outside.
The designers built-in the house into its web site by burying the bottom flooring into the slope, with the doorway and second flooring at avenue stage.
The home extends the size of its hilly web site with a linear flooring plan that comes with semi-open gardens and concludes with an outside residing and pool space.
On the bottom flooring, utility areas like storage and a small lavatory are beneath the doorway to the house, which is tucked into the steepest a part of the location. A hallway expands into the primary residing space and is surrounded by the primary backyard on the residence.
The primary residing area accommodates a seating space, a eating room, and kitchen that may be opened utilizing massive sliding glass doorways.
A second backyard containing timber and native crops surrounds the area. Each gardens will broaden and develop over time to create an extra layer of privateness. A pool and lounge space completes the residing area.
Upstairs, three bedrooms are equally open to the environment with massive home windows and metallic screens that slide open or shut.
Masonry particulars like an ornamental fence on the entrance of the house have been designed to create softness within the internal layer of the construction, whereas the outer shell is extra industrial, with a construction fabricated from metal and metallic.
Photo voltaic panels built-in into the outer shell present water heating and energy for the residence.
Through the day, the house seems inflexible and monolithic from afar. At evening, its translucent layers expose the inside construction.
FGMF has accomplished a number of buildings within the São Paulo space, together with a multi-use skyscraper with a central atrium, and one other countryside residence that options block-like volumes.
The images is by Fran Parente.
