Morato Arquitetura

House EP

House EP
© Daniel Mansur

HOUSE EP

Ulisses Morato de Andrade

PHOTOGRAPHS
Daniel Mansur

AREA
213.0 m²

YEAR
2004

LOCATION
Nova Lima, Brazil

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

This construction occupies the top of a hillside and is projected over an immense valley framed with a chain of mountains, a predominant relief in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

House EP
© Daniel Mansur
House EP
© Daniel Mansur
House EP
© Daniel Mansur

In the surroundings of Nova Lima – MG, where the construction was erected, a considerable part of the houses are influenced by the language of Portuguese colonial architecture and uses manual techniques of construction.

The house was projected for a young executive with a bold entrepreneur profile. Our architectonic proposal created a contemporaneous language tuned to the owner’s profile and, at the same time, it incorporated the constructive techniques and materials available in the region.

With this conceptual arrangement we were able to articulate constructive tradition to contemporaneous design and open space to a new approach of architectonic solution for local houses.

House EP
© Daniel Mansur
House EP
© Daniel Mansur

The place chosen for the house was determined by the generous native landscape in the surroundings. In this context, space definition privileged the possibilities of relationship of house users with the exuberant natural landscape.

As for the relation House x Nature, we decided for the contrast, i.e., the radicalization of a geometric and rational design in opposition to natural organic shapes. Therefore, the “natural order” and “cultural order” are mutually distinguished and valued

House EP
© Daniel Mansur
House EP
© Daniel Mansur

The house was built in a land with three distinct levels. This arrangement lead to a better use of declivity and, at the same time, great plasticity to architectonic elements.

Pure volumes receive interference from inclined columns, from discontinuous covering planes and from the red wall that crosses the house.

House EP
© Daniel Mansur
House EP
© Daniel Mansur

The reference to the Brazilian modernist architecture is maintained and nevertheless unconstructed and reorganized.


House EP
© Daniel Mansur
House EP
© Daniel Mansur


House EP
© Daniel Mansur
House EP
© Daniel Mansur
House EP
© Daniel Mansur


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Site plan
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Ground Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan
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longitudinal section

Morato Arquitetura
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Morato Arquitetura
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