Contemporary Juranda House in Vila Beatriz, Sao Paulo, Brazil by Apiacás Arquitetos

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With a limited available area, 6 x 24m, this house in Rua Juranda, Vila Beatriz, São Paulo, architects from Apiacás Arquitetos have successfully completed a contemporary house project with large transparency feature to establish a relationship with the external areas.

To make the transparency viable, the architects designed the openings at the front and rear of the house to be on the same axis and to be three metres wide. When open, the glazing elements slide behind the walls uniting the internal and external spaces.

The house is given structure by steel reinforced concrete cast on site with the slabs in prefabricated concrete remaining visible after construction. All of the brickwork is in ceramic blocks covered with a white render. Architects opted to put all of the house’s infrastructure on the lowest floor, making use of the nature slope, this includes: a water cistern, boiler and sewage treatment system.

Overall, this is a project that tried to limit the dimensions, to the strictly necessary, of areas such as bedrooms and bathrooms so that the communal spaces would be more generous even within this narrow plot, promoting communal living.

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