Candida Tabet Arquitetura

Luna Llena House

Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro

LUNA LLENA HOUSE 

 Candida Tabet Arquitetura

DESIGN TEAM
Candida Tabet, Carolina da Mata

LIGHT DESIGN
Candida Tabet Arquitetura

CONTRACTOR
Ruben Martinez Construcciones

INTERIORS / DECORATION
Candida Tabet

CONCRETE STRUCTURE
Ney Costantini

WOOD STRUCTURE
Orbital Consultoria e Construções

MODEL
Luiz André Lanzuolo

ARCHITECTURE ASSISTANT
Santiago Fernandez

MEP
2M projetos

SITE AREA
254 507m²

AREA
1604.55 m2

YEAR
2006

LOCATION
José Ignacio, Uruguay

CATEGORY
Houses

Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro

Text description provided by architect.

We were confronted to a cultural-social equation: we, Brazilians, São Paulo based architects, got a commission from an American couple living in New York to design a holiday house in José Ignacio, Uruguay.

Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Luna Llena House
© Tuca Reinés

Starting point was to research the local constructions with the intention to capture common, regional traces.

We found a strong contemporaneity, were unusual volumes slip into the landscape.

We were delighted with the legacy of Eladio Dieste (an Uruguayan engineer by formation, architect honoris causa) and his mastering of brickwork, a material highly popular and widely used in the past.

Luna Llena House
© Tuca Reinés
Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro

We also observed our clients, Anne, French-American, determined, enthusiastic, beautiful, great cook, attentive and caring mother of Julian and Max (14 and 15), and Bill, her husband.

In our short encounters she expressed her interest in graphic motifs, which led us to splash outdoor spaces with pergolas that, with the movement of the sun, would draw over the large walls an ever-changing graphic design in the form of light and shadow.

To the attentive mother who our client showed to be, observer of all movements, we provided a plan with minimum compartments, where the circulation through a walkway that runs along the house exposes their passers.

Luna Llena House
© Tuca Reinés
Luna Llena House
© Tuca Reinés
Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro

Metal inserts support this walkway, a large cantilever ring that surrounds and connects internally the central area, the living room, to the suites upstairs.

The architecture transits individual structural solutions with varied materials. Brick volumes define the four main functional areas that result as a kitchen / dining room / suites.

Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro

The enormous perpendicular volumes, designed towards the outside and with a single, very high coverage, define the living areas.

The rooms and balconies are linked by two axes, transverse and longitudinal. The kitchen is huge, a playground for her owner, and probably future treat for the family´s guests.

Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro

In the decision of the primary cladding, we chose to honor Eladio Dieste and dressed up the house with bricks, which accumulated in a large cube resulted antagonistic, a monolithic mosaic, homogenized by the monumental scale of the walls.

The wooden pergolas and terraces that shape the facades explore the cantilevered solutions, except the large span of the west façade, defined by consoles, a more primitive technique.

Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro

The encounter of sky and prairie, blue against green, is seen through wide and tall openings directed to the outside, framing within this large voids the typical landscape of the Pampas.


Luna Llena House
© Tuca Reinés
Luna Llena House
© Tuca Reinés
Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro


Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Luna Llena House
© Tuca Reinés
Luna Llena House
© Tuca Reinés
Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Luna Llena House
© Tuca Reinés
Luna Llena House
© Tuca Reinés
Luna Llena House
© Tuca Reinés
Luna Llena House
© Tuca Reinés
Luna Llena House
© Cristiano Mascaro


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