Casa Atibaia is an ethereal residential project that pays tribute to Brazilian modernism. Designed by Charlotte Taylor in collaboration with Nicholas Préaud, the found of Maison de Sable, the house inhabits the forest by coexisting around and in-between the landscape rather than imposing on nature.
With its light facades and ramps gently swirling around a central tree, the designers explain the house embodies the feeling of living inside with the illusion of being outside.
The structure of the home follows geometric modernist principles yet opens up onto an expansive organic inner courtyard that curves and responds to the surrounding vegetation, bridging a gap between outside and inside. Boundaries are further broken down by landscape itself as the entire structure is built around pre-existing rocks as natural pilotis, a more brutalist take on modernist language.
The rocks also extend to a certain degree into the interior with the bathroom and dressing room carved out of such forms and with smaller rocks acting as furnishing elements.
Furnishing used throughout the house is a balance of modernist gems, antique pieces and more contemporary additions from Pierre Augustin Rose, Charlotte Peeriand and Pierre Chapo.
