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Casa Floresta
Jomar Bragança

Casa Floresta

Estúdio Zargos as Architects

In a traditional neighborhood of Belo Horizonte, full of stories and values, CASA FLORESTA is the union between past and present, the old and the new, a building once forgotten, resurfacing with new residents in the middle of the Floresta neighborhood.

photo_credit Jomar Bragança
Jomar Bragança

One of the last redoubts of the capital of Minas Gerais that, without losing elegance and sophistication, brings the past to the present, centennial buildings dressed with youthfulness, this is the present and will be the future. Old traces together with new materials, contemporaneity is not in the volume of the building, but in the re-signification.

photo_credit Jomar Bragança
Jomar Bragança

The project transits between the preservation of volumetric values and the austerity of contemporary materials. The first challenge was to reverse the initial demand to completely demolish the existing building, because the original forms and proportions of this project, span decades and tell us the story of a welcoming and receptive city, just like the neighborhood, without losing sight of the main goal, to make CASA FLORESTA much more than a house, a home.

Team: 
Video: Paula Dante
Production and prop styling: Studio Tertúlia
Model: Carla Deltreggia
Photos and drone: Jomar Bragança
Architecture: Zargos Rodrigues, Rodrigo Pereira, Frederico Rodrigues, Carla Deltreggia, Ika Okamoto, Letícia Armond, Nathalia Melo and Lais Parreiras
Heritage Consultancy: Nattalia Bom Conselho and Lorena Nilzete
Landscaping: Rodrigo Pereira
Construction: Amarildo Felipe, Alexandre Bringhenti, Rubens Barcelos and Luciana Bringhenti
Civil consulting: Qualis engineering
Structure: Moa engineering
Building installations: Alexandre Bringhenti and Rubens Barcelos

photo_credit Jomar Bragança
Jomar Bragança
photo_credit Jomar Bragança
Jomar Bragança
photo_credit Jomar Bragança
Jomar Bragança
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Jomar Bragança
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Jomar Bragança
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