Casas Populares Paudalho II
Manuel Sá
Product Spec Sheet

ElementBrandProduct Name
Porcelain Dublin Branco 58x58Pamesa Cerámica
FramesAlcoa
Eight-hole bricks and solid bricksCerâmica Bom Jesus
PaintNorcola
GlassNorvidro

Product Spec Sheet
Porcelain Dublin Branco 58x58
Frames
by Alcoa
Eight-hole bricks and solid bricks
Paint
by Norcola
Glass

Casas populares paudalho II

NEBR arquitetura as Architects

Surrounded by valleys and the expanding community, the territory of intervention reveals an irregular surface geography and circumscribes the urban landscape of rural habits. This chain of houses continues the social phenomenon of urban occupation with a private character, designed by the architectural studio for the interior municipality of Paudalho in Pernambuco.

photo_credit Manuel Sá
Manuel Sá

In the sensitivity of thinking about the inhabiting is the communion between context and dwelling in function of the fulfillment dream of the own house. This exercise makes up the use of a simple and honest architecture, an instrument for inclusion and democratization of housing conditions, by revealing plurality for embryonic buildings of this nature.

photo_credit Manuel Sá
Manuel Sá

Conceiving popular dwellings goes beyond the project narrative because architecture is a product of construction and not the other way around. It is worth clarifying the architect's basal commitment at the construction site, which is to overcome difficulties imposed by economic limitations of the archetype conditioned to local artisanal constructions.

photo_credit Manuel Sá
Manuel Sá

In this process, the building party with emphasis on formal suppression simplifies the constructive process and draws a set of straight lines in accordance tinged by the topographic panorama. Thus, the geometrical sharpness of simple vocabulary articulates edges embroidered by topologically pure volumes. At its core, the tangible emptiness in height clears confabulate when living, a space substantial to human life.

Team:
Author: Edson Muniz
Staff: Amanda Brandão, Chico Santos and Kaique Siqueira

photo_credit Manuel Sá
Manuel Sá
photo_credit Manuel Sá
Manuel Sá
photo_credit Manuel Sá
Manuel Sá
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Material Used:
Cerâmica BomJesus, Alcoa, Norvidro, Pamesa, Norcola

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