丨巴西圣保罗丨Messina Rivas

Architects:Messina Rivas

Area:200m²

Year:2024

Category:Houses

Architecture:Francisco Rivas, Rodrigo Messina

Collaborators:Larisssa Monteiro

Work Supervision:Eduardo Napchan

Structure:Thiago Pires

Landscape:Seiva, Eduardo Chagas

City:Sao Paulo

Country:Brazil

Text description provided by the architects. The project is located in the Jardim Paulista neighborhood, where we faced the challenge of accommodating a complete program, three bedrooms, garden, swimming pool, terrace, integrated kitchen, comfortable service area, and parking, on a compact 180 m² plot, previously occupied by a terraced house.

We chose to dismantle the existing construction, recovering its bricks for reuse in the new building. This gesture brings memory and warmth to the interiors, connecting past and present. The new reinforced concrete structure is composed of pillars and two beams, each one meter high, which support and suspend the slabs. This strategy creates a one-meter level difference between them, used for vertical circulation through a central staircase.

More than just a connecting element, the staircase organizes access, minimizes corridors, and expands the spaces, enhancing cross ventilation and abundant natural light. The result is environments with varied ceiling heights, large openings to the outside, and direct integration with landscaping — dissolving the boundaries between interior and exterior.

The structure also accommodates a technical slab for the water tanks and supports the swimming pool on the rooftop terrace. In this way, functional efficiency is ensured without compromising the spatial lightness that guides the entire project.

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