Urban house

Live in the heart of the city. A neighborhood street, charming and lively. The transformation of the MaE residence aims to offer a welcoming and relaxing place so that its occupants can experience urbanity while preserving the sensitive qualities of the house and its environment. Receive, meet with friends, but also be a homebody, rest, take refuge, read a book, snuggle up, recharge your batteries, find yourself. Attention focused on a sensitive atmosphere linked to the individual's experience and his daily life: a counterweight to the speed, tumult and dispossession of the present time imposed by contemporary urban life. Maxime Brouillet Maxime Brouillet Maxime Brouillet Maxime Brouillet Maxime Brouillet The space... More

Commissioned by a couple with teenage children, the design of this residence, located in a heavily wooded neighborhood in São Paulo city, arises from a particular story: to create the new from the preexistence. Ricardo Faiani Ricardo Faiani Ricardo Faiani Going against the traditional process of entirely building a house and considering methods with lower environmental impact, the clients aimed to acquire a property for renovation. It took approximately four years of research and visits until they found an urban treasure with unique characteristics, whose nature encouraged potential interventions. Ricardo Faiani Ricardo Faiani The dwelling originally built following the principles of German architectural st... More

“REDEFINING A SUFFICIENT HOME FOR YOUNG HOMEOWNERS”   Prim House is a humble pet-and-plant-welcome home of a Phuket native homeowner in her mid-twenties planning to put down roots in her pricey hometown, the fourth most expensive city to live in South East Asia, by not getting into any debt.   Prim House represents a result of the empathic solution design to redefine and ratiocinate ‘a sufficient home’ of millennial homeowners: practical, manageable, and enjoyable.   Refashioned customary materials and technicalities, such as raw steel products, prefabricated air vents, and exposed structure, were chosen to prevent costly complexity and errors. The provident design thinking towards the sequential... More

H o u s e w i t h  a  F r a m eSiteThe design is articulated in one of the row housing plots having an area about 1 gunta (local unit of land area measuring) or 1000 sqft. The site is oriented in east - west axis, measuring as 8 Mt. X 12.5 Mt. (25’ X 40’). It is accessed by 6 Mt. wide road on East side. The site is surrounded by adjacent plots on three sides, so the longer faces (South & North sides) are acting as common walls (dead walls) sharing boundary with plots on either sides, thus providing privilege of play of fenestrations, weather protections, projections etc. only on front and rear faces (East & West sides).SpaceWith the limitation of common walls on longer faces of the site and setbacks of 1.5 Mt. & 0... More