Brazilian apply Studio KUNZ has created a compact gabled home that cantilevers from a sloped web site in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Accomplished in 2022 within the municipality of David Canabarro, Casa Trapézios – or the Trapezium Home – is fashioned by two juxtaposed trapezoidal sections organized back-to-back in a “reinterpretation of the gabled roof archetype”.
MaurÃcio Kunz, who leads Studio KUNZ, used the “indirect angles of trapezoidal kinds [to] intensify the attitude and supply visible dynamism to the facade”.
The 1,830-square foot (170-square metre) home is split down the centre ridge line, with the jap half protruding over a retaining wall in the direction of the road and the western half set again into the rising slope of the location.
The association creates makes the construction seem balanced atop a slate staircase that gives a country base for the house’s clear white traces.
Positioned on the city fringe of the city, the home caters to the consumer’s love of the countryside with heat wooden accents that reference the araucaria bushes that body the sloping web site.
Vertical wooden slats wrap the bottom and switch right into a gate for the ramped driveway, whereas horizontal slats stack up marking the entrance door.
“This conjunction of supplies and shapes offers to Trapezium Home the texture of a rustic home,” the studio mentioned.
“Inclined slabs make up each the roof construction and the inner ceiling, sustaining the indirect traces of the facade in inside areas,” the studio defined.
“To maintain the continual ceiling floor, inverted beams have been used all through the constructing.”
The break up facade and doubled construction additionally mark the division between the personal and public areas of the home.
The northern projecting quantity consists of the first suite, two smaller bedrooms and a toilet. The first suite comprises a balcony forming the cantilever and an extension to the east to provide the suite more room.
Two steps down, the southern recessed quantity consists of an open-plan dwelling, eating and kitchen space. A two-car storage is tucked on the rear of the home.
The lounge has views in all 4 cardinal instructions together with east via a transverse hall via the personal half of the home.
Ground-to-ceiling home windows and the continuation of the inside ceiling to the outside soffit create a refined transition to the surface, marked by a skinny black, metallic body.
Within the eating space, a glass door opens to a wood pergola that helps climbing vegetation.
“The palette of supplies that unites wooden, linen and burnt cement is enhanced by the white partitions and ceiling, in a monolithic end,” the studio mentioned.
“The fireside and the wooden range complement the required coziness for the chilly winter on this southern Brazilian area.”
Different residential tasks just lately accomplished in Brazil embrace Denis Joelson’s linear home with round gardens and FGMF’s ethereal dwelling surrounded by a translucent shell.
The images is by Ezequiele Panizzi.
Undertaking credit:
Architect: MaurÃcio Kunz
Structural engineer: Henrique Bertolini
Building: OR Construções
