伊泰帕瓦农场丨巴西丨Lucas Jimeno Dualde

Architects:Lucas Jimeno Dualde

Area:572m²

Year:2024

Photographs:Ruy Teixeira

Manufacturers:Leilão Design,Lucas Jimeno Dualde,Olaria,Unknown (Removed),Unknown (Removed)

Category:Residential Architecture,Houses

Coordination:Lucas Jimeno Dualde

Project Team:Augusto Kenji, Pablo Resende

City:Itaipava

Country:Brazil

Text description provided by the architects. There are projects that begin long before the design. In Itaipava, in the Fluminense mountains, an old stable from the São João de Icaraí Farm stood as the last vestige of a rural past: an isolated, silent volume, surrounded by vegetation. When we were invited to intervene in the property, the central question was not just to renovate a building that is almost 80 years old, but to understand how to transform this agricultural space into a contemporary country house, without erasing the geography and identity of the place.

The request for this project arose from the owner’s desire to update the property while maintaining its original structure. There was an opportunity to preserve the whole, reorganizing the program with precision. The old food pavilion was converted into the barbecue area; the stall area gave way to the living rooms and kitchen; and the axis of the four suites derives directly from the redesign of the old stables. In the center, the pool takes on the role of an open courtyard, evoking monastic and Moorish architectures, where water, circulation, and silence articulate in a single gesture.

The intervention started from a clear principle: there is no competition between the new interventions and the existing buildings. The volume of the bedrooms simplifies the play of roofs and creates continuity between what already existed and what was added. The openings follow a logic inherited from Portuguese tradition, more restrained in the bedrooms and wider in the communal areas, allowing the house to open up to the surroundings without losing the feeling of shelter. The minimalist stainless steel frames, produced in the resident's own workshop, introduce a contemporary element without breaking the sobriety of the whole.

The materials were chosen to respond to life in the countryside with sobriety. The walls received a clay texture, rougher on the exterior and smoother on the interior, marking the transition between inside and outside. The floor alternates between wood and pink cement bricks, providing visual continuity and stability for continuous use. A single chromatic deviation concentrates the intensity: a deep blue corridor, a deliberate reference to Barragán, where color acts as both passage and pause.

The furniture reinforces the coherence of the project. A large part of the pieces was designed by Lucas and executed by a local woodworking shop, functioning as structures that organize the space: they are tables, shelves, sideboards, and sofas that define uses and converse with the architecture. In the living room, the Concha armchairs by Carlo Hauner and Martin Eisler, from Leilão Design, are positioned in front of the fireplace, while cement bricks from Olaria Elementum cover the floor of the entire social area. This base is complemented by furniture from Zanine Caldas and Lina Bo Bardi, and works of popular art, echoing the research on Brazilian material culture and bringing the house closer to an expanded idea of landscape.

The Fazenda Itaipava reflects a design ethic based on restraint and sensory comfort. The communal spaces are spacious, intended to host family and friends, but maintain a calm atmosphere, almost like a refuge. The suites, in turn, are treated with greater chromatic discretion, privileging intimate scale and controlled light. The result is a house that does not impose itself on the landscape: it extends the terrain, listens to the memory of the place, and offers the resident a space for retreat amidst the mountains.

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