Latin america

When we received the CASA CM project, we were faced with a big challenge. The house was a 40-year-old hacienda-type house in a deteriorated state. It had to be both remodeled and almost fully rehabilitated. The house maintained a traditional Spanish hacienda style of distribution where each space, both in private and social areas, was compartmentalized and separated.  The areas were connected through corridors. The structure was based on a grid of columns and wooden beams that supported a large tile roof. The client's request was for us to transform the house into a giant loft, where absolutely all the social spaces would integrate with each other. They wanted a space where the interior areas would fully integrate with the exterior on... More

With a position of respect towards the nature (artificial or natural) of the site and with the aim of integrating the new use of study house, it is resolved to preserve the pre-existing ones: a mediagua that functioned as an office, the green area with a mandarin tree and two pedestrian accesses the first a gravel absorbent floor (informal) and the second a cement platform (formal) which worked as a main income to the office, executing an intervention that maintains the integrity of the artificial system.The informality that informs the way of life.From the constant review of the informal that takes advantage of the limits, a light structure is used that allows us to dodge and occupy the place around the tree that acts as a force of expansi... More

The desire to live of the users on a serene, silent, vast, spacious and full of trees, where nature is able to show its greatness, has led them to identify a place in the sector of Ricaurte in Cuenca-Ecuador, a almost intact site that in the mornings is stripped of a mist characteristic of the mountains of the area that floats on the sloping territory managing to guide the gaze to the top of the trees, mountains and clouds. Working with the natural slope of the site allows us to observe architecture as a landscape and buildings as their mountains, which would generate an artificial territory that adapts to the topography, manipulating as a scenario a landscape within another to obtain a new geography that rises when moving between the... More

Located in the Vila Mariana, neighborhood of São Paulo, the Box St. project is based on the desire of customers to carry out a food trade with containers that allow a new interaction with external space and even a public use of space. With reduced budget and short term, the program and the implantation were a great challenge, as several difficulties were presented for HAA! Studio. Seeking to minimize resources and materials, prefabricated solutions were employed, reconciling the production of the office with the idea that was presented to us. In a land of 4m x 40m, located in the neighborhood of Vila Mariana in São Paulo, there was the desire of the clients to carry out a food trade made with containers that would allow a greater interac... More

The Santander Bank, from an ideas competition, selected the project by Estúdio HAA! in a partnership with Soul Urbansimo, to accomplish the urban interventions around São Paulo city, in parklet format. The restaurants at the heart of Itaim (São Paulo district), and also nearby universities, gain a new face with the new parklets installed, giving a new function to the city’s parking spaces. The initial idea was to bring a moving and illuminated atmosphere of the automobiles that circulate around the city to inside theses smalls public spaces of permanence and recreation, through a illumination project attached to the small urban intervention. With more comfort e much more to offer, the new parklets promise to make the streets much more... More