特拉豪斯丨TETRO Arquitetura

Architects:TETRO Arquitetura

Area:287m²

Year:2021

Photographs:Luisa Lage

Manufacturers:Art Ladrilhos,Metru,Top Coat,Xapuri,iluminar

Architects In Charge:Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes e Igor Macedo

Collaborators:Mariana Ventura, Déborah Martins

Concrete Structure:BVA Engenharia

Electrical & Plumbing:PROALPHA Engenharia e Consultoria

Construction:SAMEL ENGENHARIA

City:Serra do Cipó

Country:Brazil

Text description provided by the architects. Terra House is in the middle of nature, at the Serra do Cipó region, approximately 120km from the capital Belo Horizonte. With practically a flat topography, the land has several mastic trees - which in the winter lose their leaves and, in the summer, keep their green crowns - and has borders, on one side, with an environmental protection area that has an extensive native forest.

After the first visit to the place, it became clear the importance of maintaining the natural characteristics of the land and creating an intense relationship with the forest, where there will be no neighbors in the future. In addition, the central part of the land, with the best environmental characteristics, should remain intact. Thus, its implementation and its concept were given as answers to this understanding.

Its implementation strategy was created from questioning which parts of the land should not be occupied and what should be maintained, reversing the logic of thinking first in what to build. In order to maintain all the vegetation on the ground, the program was distributed under a fluid slab that unfolds through the empty spaces between the trees.

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