A house emerged from the red lands and the Cunha rolling landscape by Arquipélago Arquitetos
12/08/2020.
[Cunha - São Paulo] Brazil
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Architecture studio, based-São Paulo, Arquipélago Arquitetos has designed a house located in the mountainous municipality of Cunha, in the state of São Paulo, in Brazil.
The project received its name, House in Cunha, or Casa em Cunha in Portuguese, after its location in municipality, mountainous region part of the Metropolitan Region of Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte. The first inhabitants arrived in the beginning of the 18th century and is traditionally known for its ceramic craft culture.
The project received its name, House in Cunha, or Casa em Cunha in Portuguese, after its location in municipality, mountainous region part of the Metropolitan Region of Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte. The first inhabitants arrived in the beginning of the 18th century and is traditionally known for its ceramic craft culture.
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Section. House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos.
Site plan. House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos.
Axonometric. House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos.
Ground floor plan. House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos.
Section. House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos.
Section. House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos.
Section. House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos.
Detail. House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos.
Rendering. House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos.
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
House in Cunha by Arquipélago Arquitetos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Arquipélago Arquitetos designed the residence with reddish tone walls made of rammed-earth, old technology revisited in a contemporary way. Besides, the house has straight lines marking the soft topography acentuated by flat-roofed, standing out on its site at the top of a gently sloping plot next to a large tree.
The red tone home is integrated with verdant and red landscape, that depending on the season and position of the sun, show us more integration in vegetation or earth.
The red tone home is integrated with verdant and red landscape, that depending on the season and position of the sun, show us more integration in vegetation or earth.
"It was sought that the original fact of this construction in an isolated, wild place was a maximum signal of the arrival human presence in the landscape: straight lines marking the soft topography."
Arquipélago Arquitetos
Project description by Arquipélago Arquitetos
The house is located in the hinterland of Cunha, in the interior of São Paulo, in a mountainous region traditionally known for its ceramic craft culture.
The party of the house comes from its implantation at the top of the hill of the landscape, seeking the best views of the entire oblique terrain and the Serra, in the background.
To protect the house from the cold winds, a cut of 1 meter of earth was made in order to half-buried it, up to the height of the benches of the service areas. From this cut emerged every constructive resource for the execution of the walls of the house: the earth.
The main walls of the house are made of rammed-earth, old technology revisited in a contemporary way: an authentic formwork system was proposed that avoided perforations with metal bars and developed a more efficient building site, so that its modulated components could be disassembled and reassembled with ease.
This constructive technique provided us with interdisciplinary encounters: physics, chemistry, geology and geography broadened our understanding of the landscape where we proposed the house.
All the characteristics of hardness, thermal inertia, color, brightness, tactile quality are factors due to the physical and chemical characteristics of that specific soil.
The rest of the walls are made of straw colored bricks, burned earth, by a local pottery that removes clay rich in aluminum from the floodplain regions of a stream.
The house has rooms facing north and a room to the northwest looking to warm their living environments the rigorous winter. There is a fireplace and a wood stove in the living room, also made of mud and, connected to the balcony, on the floor, a large circular space for a bonfire made of bricks.
The roof structure is a wooden grate, composing together with the floor two large horizontal planes in wood that are distinguished from the vertical planes on earth.
It was sought that the original fact of this construction in an isolated, wild place was a maximum signal of the arrival human presence in the landscape: straight lines marking the soft topography.
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Architects
Arquipélago Arquitetos. Architects.- Luís Tavares, Marinho Velloso.
Collaborators
Rammed earth consulting.- Fernando Minto, Pablo de las Cuevas, Domitila Almenteiro – Materia Base.
Wood structure consulting.- Alan Dias - Carpinteria Estruturas.
Builder
Carlinhos.
Dates
Project.- 2017.
Completed.- 2019.
Photography
Luís Tavares, Marinho Velloso. Arquipélago Arquitetos
Arquipélago Arquitetos is a Brazilian architecture studio based in Sao Paulo, founded in 2013, leads by Luís Tavares and Marinho Velloso that develops projects on different scales and supports.
