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News • News • 13 Aug 2020
Brazilian House cleverly navigates topography with multi-level volumetric design
In Salto de Pirapora, Brazil, this house by Vereda Arquitetos is situated on a 1000 sqm plot with an 8-meter slope from front to back. Looking out over a small ecological reserve and stream, the house comprises three buried masonry volumes with floor levels varying in accordance with the topography.
Credit: Andre Scarpa
The three volumes house the kitchen and laundry in the first volume, the bedrooms in the second and the master bedroom with bathroom in the third volume, which is a mezzanine type space enclosed from the living room below by sliding curtain.
Credit: Andre Scarpa
The arrangement of the volumes on-site allows for fluidity over the sloping terrain, without cutting the site off between front and back. A concrete gran... More
Project • By studio203 architects • Private Houses
Lilyfield House
WANGAL COUNTRY. Lilyfield House is an inner city home, conceived as a spatial assembly of internal and external rooms and volumes, opening to the light, to green spaces and rising to the district outlook. The rooms and platforms of the house pivot around a central atrium, integrating portions of a historic shop.
Accessible from only two sides and subject to acoustic constraints under a flight path, these 3-storey alterations and additions cater for family living and working from home.
A reduced materials palette of off-form concrete, black steel, plywood and bamboo flooring and historic fabric in white-set plaster, provides a generosity of space and light for a family of five.
Lilyfield House is effcient in its use of an inner city site.... More