MAPA collective has created this system and has used it in the design of two homes in the Fazenda Catuçaba (MINIMOD CATUÇABA I, a cross on top and MINIMOD CATUÇABA II, the line in the landscape), in the core of a group of coastal mountains of Brazil. This technological and projectual experiment has been awarded in the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism 2016 and selected in the Mies Americas Prize Crown Hall of the IIT of Chicago.
Descripción del proyecto por MAPA
Living in Remote Landscapes
MINIMOD is a projective, technological and experiential exploration. It appears as a primitive coat with a contemporary reinterpretation. A device that connects us to our deepest roots: the natural, the weather, the landscape. Its dense and compact design converses with places where installed, it strengthen them it turns them into available landscapes. Quiet, but never shy, MINIMOD resigns to star the role to explore that new-primitive experience between man and landscape: an invitation to inhabit the border between nature and artifice.
Catuçaba Fazenda is located at the east of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, in the heart of a chain of coastal mountains. undulating landscapes and dense vegetation. Captivating views that invite exploration. In the fazed, organized around an old house that was used for coffee production in the colonial era, the MINIMOD are grown apart towards the remote in search of the perfect places to be located. At the top of a hill, on the shore of a small lake, near a watercourse or at the bottom of a valley, each adapted to new landscapes to make them more powerfull.
MINIMOD system
MINIMOD is not a finished project, as many projects as we are able to imagine can be created. Based on a systemic logic of combinable customizable modules, it allows the selection and composition of the modules that best fit each new landscape and user and offers a choice of the exterior skin and of the equipment. The possibilities are endless!
Prefab
MINIMOD intends to be an alternative to traditional construction, incorporating all the advantages that the industry can give us: higher precision, faster construction, fewer waste generation and above all, greater environmental responsibility.
Its CLT technology (Cross-laminated timber) is an industrialized, durable and sustainable system of solid treated wood panels. Thus combines the efficiency of the industrial product, the sustainability of new technologies and the sensitivity of the natural material par excellence.
Plug & Play
A plug and play device is one that we receive early to plug and use, and it is uncomplicated. As such, the steps required to install and enjoy one MINIMOD should be simple and fast. From the landscape factory.
MINIMOD CATUÇABA I, a cross on top
The cross in the landscape, strategic position of all time, is located at the top of a slope of the fazenda. Thus, each shelter space looks at a different cardinal point. Circular experience of the surrounding nature: dawn, day, sunset and night; spring, summer, autumn, winter and again spring ...
MINIMOD CATUÇABA II, the line in the landscape
Back to the neighborhood, and open towards the small lake at the south of the fazenda, shelter peeks between native vegetation. Using the same number of modules that in the cross, but arranged in a linear form it is placed parallel to the slope of the hill, which integrates through a deck that expands.
