This project was conceived to occupy a plot located in a condominium near São Paulo, featuring a gentle slope, prompting us to design a single-story layout with the residential program not grouped together, thus conditioning circulation as an outdoor, covered yet open path, akin to the traditional veranda houses of our vernacular architecture. Despite the house's circulation being introspective, akin to a cloister, circling the internal perimeter of the roof that defines the permeable area of the courtyard, the intention was to accentuate the relationship between inside and outside, as the gaps between volumes act as windows to the external view, where landscaping will be denser, aiming not only for contemplation but also to preserve the residents' privacy without the need for creating walls at the lot's edge.

The disconnected play of volumes is unified by a single wooden roof structure, a grid mesh with a 1.25x1.25m modulation, sometimes opaque, sometimes open, sometimes sealed with tempered glass shaded by wooden slats, acting as horizontal sunshades - this situation shelters the outdoor living area and kitchen located on the roof slab above halfway level of the pool area.
Intentionally, the wooden roof, designed as a single horizontal plane, forms a loose crowning of the concrete panel enclosures and ends up unifying the fragmentation of the program of spaces.

For the logistics of the construction, we established three phases that alternated between prefabrication and assembly:
- The first phase was the execution of the ground. A concrete slab that acts as both
foundation and floor at the same time, adjusted halfway in relation to the existing slope to avoid major earth movements. During this period, we simultaneously started prefabricating the structure, concrete panels, and window frames.
- The second phase, once the curing and sanding of the concrete floor were completed, we began assembling the wooden structure, always fixed and joined by galvanized steel components.
After the assembly of the crowning mesh and the consequent execution of the roof, we started the third and final phase.
- The third phase was completed with the installation of concrete panels and window frames, as well as the installation of equipment, luminaires, and fixed furniture - these were also designed by Apiacás.

This work is the result of experiments we have been conducting in our office after some projects with the theme of prefabrication with the intention of contributing to other constructive possibilities for the construction site that minimize material waste, the ostensive use of water, and as a consequence favor the time and labor of the workforce. However, unlike the first works where we sought this challenge when we had used a metal structure, this is the first time we have mixed wooden structure with concrete panels, as we still understand it to have excellent performance as a sealing material.

In our office, we consider this project not only as a search for constructive coherence but also for the poetics of design, intending to create a residual image in our memory when discussing it; a construction where the heaviest material inserts itself as a base crowned by a lighter materiality, wood, which in turn seems to float on the mass of inert concrete.