Angelo Bucci & Alvaro Puntoni
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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| Photo © Courtesy of Nelson Kon |
Geographic conditions
The most remarkable feature of the site where the house is located is its depression, in topographical terms. From the street, we cannot clearly see its ground level because the ground surface falls abruptly into a little valley and woods: a stage 6 m below.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Nelson Kon |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Nelson Kon |
The program joins two different purposes: a house and an office, it is a place to both live and work. Although these two functions share the same space, it is as separate as possible.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Nelson Kon |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Nelson Kon |
The different levels offered by the site were utilized to arrange the two main programs.
The street level was kept free of any enclosed space, it is a kind of “pilotis” with two different areas: the first one is on the ground, very close to the street, and the other one is aerial, as a roof terrace over the building. A bridge, made of steel, connects these two areas. The only entrance to the building is the bridge with its steel grid floor that leads over the open space: downstairs to the house or upstairs to the office.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Nelson Kon |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Nelson Kon |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Nelson Kon |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Nelson Kon |
From the street level, the office is located upstairs. Its dimensions, 3 m wide and 25 m long, making it look like a tube open at both extremities. Therefore, the windows offer new views: more landscape than patios, and more panoramic than an intimate space.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Nelson Kon |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Nelson Kon |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Nelson Kon |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Nelson Kon |
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| access floor plan--drawing Courtesy of Angelo Bucci & Alvaro Puntoni |
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| bedrooms floor plan--drawing Courtesy of Angelo Bucci & Alvaro Puntoni |
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| office floor plan--drawing Courtesy of Angelo Bucci & Alvaro Puntoni |
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| living area floor plan--drawing Courtesy of Angelo Bucci & Alvaro Puntoni |
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| section AA--drawing Courtesy of Angelo Bucci & Alvaro Puntoni |
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| section BB--drawing Courtesy of Angelo Bucci & Alvaro Puntoni |
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| section CC--drawing Courtesy of Angelo Bucci & Alvaro Puntoni |
The people
Architects: Angelo Bucci, Alvaro PuntoniLocation: Carapicuíba, São Paulo, Brazil
Collaborators: Ciro Miguel, Fernando Bizarri, Juliana Braga
Structure: Ibsen Pulleo Uvo, Ruy Bentes
Services: Mauro Rodrigues Pinto
Landscape: Klara Kaiser
Construction: Alexsandro Bremenkamp
Project year: 2003
Construction year: 2008
Site area: 450 sqm
Construction area: 415 sqm
Lighting: Reka
Steel panels: Perfilor
Scaffolding: Peri
Photographs: Nelson Kon
