Casa BE is home to a unique family; a project that the studio and client materialized after a process of permanent interaction and a very clear program: the kitchen should have a leading role; the room would enjoy independence, far from what happened in the area of fire and food; always social.
This premises dictated the form: a body in the form of 'L', with the kitchen in the north, the room in the west and, among them, a garden that imposes its own rules, that steals the attention of those who just enters hall, located at the angle where both sides intersect, topped with a window of three-by-three meters. The garden is opposed to the closed and blunt façade, with a basement and gray painted fence, which closes completely to the west and access to the property.
Towards the second floor, we find the intimate, resting space; towards the basement and the garage, following the same stairs, the route is as dignified and exemplary as if it were the main entrance.
The kitchen is a magnet for those who arrive, it communicates with the garden, which protects, in turn, a sober, almost imperceptible-looking pool, and the fire pit. In contrast to the lobby, the fire pit offers a full view of the construction: horizontality, its condition as a house open to the garden - among them, there are only windows that are almost completely folded down; the materials that define its appearance - walnut on walls, stones in matte finish, the grayscale - and a catchy detail, the shutters that protect the outer corridor of the second floor, made of tropical wood (cumarú), bring to mind dwellings of the humid jungle where one can spend time just waiting for rain or sunrise.
On the second floor, the hall connects three bedrooms from the outside without altering the privacy of the users and maintains the interaction with the garden. Another interior corridor pays for the function, but provides an experience totally different: an art gallery, a neat area that ends with a window facing the east where the top of amyrtle tree appears.
Material Used:
1. Facade cladding: Stucco walls, Cumaru solid wood
2. Flooring: Santo Tomás marble
3. Doors: Cumaru solid wood for outdoors, walnut for interiors
4. Windows: PVC Framing
