Brazil’s Casa Subtração contrasts dramatic concrete brutalism with openness

Casa Subtração is a undertaking born of a reasonably widespread temporary, however with a quite unusual end result. A household of three – two dad and mom and their teenage son –approached structure studio FGMF for a vacation residence in Bragança Paulista, some 90km from the town of São Paulo. The architects’ response to the scheme’s idyllic, inexperienced website was to attempt to guarantee that their design allowed the pure setting to shine and didn’t impede views out to it. 

Casa Subtração: an open Brazilian escape

Their answer was to dig a basement to anchor the residence to the bottom after which create a flowing, principally open-air floor degree that seamlessly connects with the verdant surrounds. 

Then the principle residence could be raised above the bottom in two porous ranges –platforms that work with the area’s nice local weather and introduce a dialogue between indoors and outdoor at each step.

The floorplans are framed by a daring concrete construction in brutalist structure, which displays the Brazilian modernism roots of the studio, headed by Lourenço Gimenes, Rodrigo Marcondes Ferraz and Fernando Forte.  

All through, openings have been carved out of the concrete body, making certain the strong construction feels permeable. The architects write: ‘The accentuated horizontality of the undertaking is skillfully balanced by strategically positioned voids within the horizontal planes, drawn in a mismatched method and related to the steps.’ 

‘These voids not solely present a number of views, but additionally encourage visible contact between the folks in the home, whether or not in the lounge, the swimming pool or the storage backyard, the place the native vegetation grows and occupies a part of the voids.’

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