Nature as part of the project. Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso
26/04/2022.
[Caxias do Sul] Brazil
metalocus, CARLOS RUBIO
metalocus, CARLOS RUBIO
Located in the extreme south of Brazil, in the municipality of Caxias do Sul and in a traditional neighborhood, the Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso highlights the basic principles of architecture, the environmental conditions, the characteristics of the construction process, the optimal resolution of the program and the harmony of forms.
The insertion of the project into the landscape is a response to the limitations of the site. With the search for a small intervention of the topography, the house rests on a pilot that delicately touches the ground.
The insertion of the project into the landscape is a response to the limitations of the site. With the search for a small intervention of the topography, the house rests on a pilot that delicately touches the ground.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Andre Mortati.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Andre Mortati.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Andre Mortati.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Andre Mortati.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Roberta Gewehr.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Andre Mortati.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Andre Mortati.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Roberta Gewehr.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Roberta Gewehr.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Roberta Gewehr.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Andre Mortati.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Andre Mortati
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Roberta Gewehr.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Roberta Gewehr.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Roberta Gewehr.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Roberta Gewehr.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Andre Mortati.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Roberta Gewehr.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Roberta Gewehr.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Andre Mortati.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Roberta Gewehr.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Roberta Gewehr.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Manuel Sá.
Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso. Photograph by Andre Mortati.
Site plan. Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso.
Basement floor plan. Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso.
Ground floor plan. Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso.
Section. Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso.
Section. Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso.
Section. Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso.
Section. Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso.
Façade. Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso.
Façade. Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso.
Façade. Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso.
Façade. Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso.
Sketch. Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso.
Axonometry. Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso.
Model. Fortunata house by Luciano Lerner Basso.
The programmatic layout of Casa Fortunata by Luciano Lerner Basso is simple. The garage of the house is located under the piloti. On entering the house there is both the laundry room and the entrance hall. On the upper level, an open structure was planned where the program is developed with a separation between the functions of living, working, and sleeping through the condition generated by the server core.
Exposed concrete is the protagonist in the project and was used because it is a material that ages well like nature, as well as behaves optimally under environmental conditions. Another benefit is its low maintenance, even in the humidity of the forest.
Exposed concrete is the protagonist in the project and was used because it is a material that ages well like nature, as well as behaves optimally under environmental conditions. Another benefit is its low maintenance, even in the humidity of the forest.
Description of project by Luciano Lerner Basso
FORTUNATA, adj. from Italian: one who has been touched by luck. A house built around a tree, where reason is the main instrument in the search for the spirit of life.
Located in the extreme south of Brazil, the Fortunata house is a project that highlights the essential activities of Architecture: the attentive reading of the environmental conditions; the precise determination of the construction processes; the correct resolution of the program of needs; and the harmony of the built forms.
Built-in a traditional neighborhood, the house was built around a huge Araucaria Angustifolia. Access from the street to the entrance of the house is via a winding path of earth and gravel, the street enters the courtyard and extends to the front door. There are no walls, only a metal mesh. There is the intention that the ground of the house should be the same as that of the city; the desire to create urban spaces without barriers, to visually integrate the public and the private.
Its insertion into the landscape is a direct response to the limitations of the site. In order to minimize intervention in the topography, the main volume rests on a piloti that delicately touches the ground and adapts to the natural conformation of the terrain. All the material resulting from the excavation of the foundations was used; the earth was used as an embankment for the vehicle maneuvering area; the stones were used in the construction of the retaining walls. The native vegetation was almost entirely preserved. If it were possible for a huge crane to lift the house and place it elsewhere, the original site would be left virtually untouched, with no trace of the construction work.
Designed for a young couple, the programmatic division of Fortunata is simple: on the lower level, under the pilotis, is a garage; entering the house are the entrance hall and laundry room. On the upper level, based on the geometric union of four rectangles, a structurally open floor plan was designed, where the separation between the functions of living, working and sleeping is given by the spatial condition generated by the spatial condition of the house.
The spatial condition generated by the server core and the use of light elements. There are no dead-end corridors or enclosed living spaces, and circulation occurs in a continuous movement through the flexible and multifunctional environments. A condition that allows the house to assume different configurations and to adapt to changes in the lives of the owners.
the life of the owners.
Completing the program, three verandas built from the timber used in the concrete formwork connect the house with the backyard; they extend the living room into the landscape. With no curtains or visual barriers between inside and outside, the inhabitant has permanent contact with nature. At the same time as he inhabits the house, he also inhabits the forest.
The exposed concrete molded-in loco is in the structure, in the enclosures, in the steps of the stairs, and even in the fixed furniture. It is a material that ages as beautifully as nature, is weather-resistant, and requires little maintenance, even in the humidity of the forest. In addition, it is a very common system in the region, with a lot of skilled labor and with lower construction costs than other systems with the same virtues. A structure that is raw and reveals a construction process that, while rigorous and precise, also shows the perfect imperfections of a work done by hand. A work where matter and technique are indivisible.
We designed a silent architecture that maintains a frank dialogue with nature, whether through its opaque walls, which in the harsh southern winter are confused with the fog or through the way the forest is reflected in its windows on days with blue skies. Its plastic quality lies in the relationships between planes, voids, lights, landscape, and textures. A project that expands the field of architecture itself and provides reflections on the relationship between the house and the city, between man and nature.
As for the sustainable aspects, in addition to the minimal intervention in the existing vegetation and topography, we highlight the use of reforested wood in the concrete formwork; reuse of this wood for the construction of the verandas; cross ventilation in all the rooms of continuous use; high-performance carpentry with thermal bridge breakage; hermetic double glazing; thermal insulation with EPS in the floor and ceiling slabs; treatment of the exposed concrete with solvent-free products; heating system powered by ecological fuel; use of rainwater for irrigation; natural lighting in all rooms, including the use of skylights; artificial lighting made entirely with low-energy bulbs, including automation to control outdoor lighting.
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Architects
Collaborators
Systems - Roberto Basso.
Structures: André Granzotto.
Structures: André Granzotto.
Area
Land area.- 1,000 m².
Constructed area.- 240 m².
Constructed area.- 240 m².
Dates
2020.
Location
Caxias do Sul, Brasil.
Photography
Luciano Lerner BASSO
Luciano Lerner Basso (1979) graduated from the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul – Faculty of Architecture in 2003 and has a master’s degree in Architecture (UniRitter/Mackenzie, 2015). Basso won the 2003 Opera Prima award with his graduation project. His projects were selected in the São Paulo (2005) and Brasília (2007) Architecture Biennials. He established his own architecture firm and, although he has no children of his own, he passionately practices Architecture, believing that he can make the world a better place for his grandchildren through architecture.
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