Nitsche Architects

Guarujá House By Nitsche Arquitetos

Guarujá House By Nitsche Arquitetos
© André Scarpa

GUARUJÁ HOUSE

Nitsche Arquitetos

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Lua Nitsche, Pedro Nitsche, Rosário Borges de Pinho, André Scarpa

MANUFACTURERS
AutoDesk, Chaos Group, REKA, Adobe, Alwitra, Engemetal, Leonhardt Decorações, RCA Fachadas e forros, SOLTIS, Trimble Navigation, Zeloart Esquadrias

PRODUCTS USED IN PROJECT
Renders / 3D Animation

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Ricardo Bozza, INNER

PROJECT TEAM
João nitsche, rodrigo tamburus; anna laura prado, clara werneck, claudia carpes, denis ferri, julia machado, gil barbieri, luciana silva, manuella leboreiro, mara cruz, marcelo anaf, raquel takamoto, thiago pontes

MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Marcelo zamaro

INTERIORS
Nitsche arquitetos

LIGHTNING
Ricardo heder - lux projetos

CONTRACTOR
Caio lima – atmos

STEEL STRUCTURE MANUFACTURER
Engemetal

PHOTOGRAPHS
André Scarpa

AREA
4230 ft2

YEAR
2020

LOCATION
Guaruja, Brazil

CATEGORY
House, House Interiors

Text description provided by the architects.

The house is be located in Iporanga, a condominium for beach houses on Guarujá, São Paulo’s coast city, approximately 120km east from the capital.

Guarujá House By Nitsche Arquitetos
© André Scarpa
Guarujá House By Nitsche Arquitetos
© André Scarpa

This condo is inside a very well preserved and protected area of the original Atlantic Rainforest. To preserve the exuberance of this native forest the law permitted to occupy only 30% of the footprint of the ground plot surface.

The challenge was to accommodate a large program that included five en-suite bedrooms, which demanded not less than 450m2 to be build. To achieve this, it was necessary to split the program in three levels.

Guarujá House By Nitsche Arquitetos
© André Scarpa
Guarujá House By Nitsche Arquitetos
© André Scarpa

The plot of 1.310 m² with constant inclination of 14% allows the insertion of a basement, cover by a pre-fabricated concrete slab that occupies the entire footprint.

The basement houses the garage, services, technical areas, a sauna and a spa, this last one located where the basement level connects with the exterior.

There are also a small accommodation for a housekeeper couple, a laundry and a deposit.

Guarujá House By Nitsche Arquitetos
© André Scarpa
Guarujá House By Nitsche Arquitetos
© André Scarpa

Four steel pillars arise from the ground and elevate the volume of the bedrooms defined by two Pratt Truss, creating a free space between the first floor and the basement.

The bedroom’s windows open to the treetops and the shadow created by this structure on the slab defines the social area.

Guarujá House By Nitsche Arquitetos
© André Scarpa
Guarujá House By Nitsche Arquitetos
© André Scarpa

This middle floor is an open space, protected on all sides by transparent temperate glass sliding panels so the forest can be seen at almost all times, and the privacy from the street and from the north neighbor is achieved with the use of cement panels that create a dynamic façade.

Large glass sliding doors allow the rooms and kitchen to mix with a covered external space, dissolving the boundaries between inside and outside, making all spaces of this level work as one integrated area.

Guarujá House By Nitsche Arquitetos
© André Scarpa
Guarujá House By Nitsche Arquitetos
© André Scarpa

We pursue to make this construction as an assembling of parts more than an in loco process, concerning less waste at the building site, more agility having in mind the limited work area, and trying to get the proper use of industrialized materials.


Guarujá House By Nitsche Arquitetos
Section AA
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Section BB
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Section CC
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South Elevation


Guarujá House By Nitsche Arquitetos
Plan - Ground Floor
Guarujá House By Nitsche Arquitetos
Plan - Basement Floor
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Plan - 1st Floor
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East Elevation


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Structure

Nitsche Architects
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