Tarumã House

Tarumã House
© Joana França

TARUMÃ HOUSE

Laurent Troost Architectures

PHOTOGRAPHS
Joana França

CATAGORY
Houses

MANUFACTURERS
Aluminios Rocha, Gerdau, Jatobá, Tegape

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Laurent Troost

PROJECT TEAM
Laurent Troost, Raquel Brasil Dos Reis, Amanda Perreira, Fernanda Martins

AREA
4338 ft²

STRUCTURAL PROJECT
Secope Engenharia Ltda

CONSTRUCTION
Helena Rabello, Daniel Herzson

YEAR
2020

LOCATION
Manaus, Brazil

INSTALLATIONS
RB Instalações Ltda

STRUCTURE
Secope Engenharia

Tarumã House
© Joana França
Tarumã House
© Joana França

Text description provided by architect.

Located near a small lake that flows into the Tarumã River, in the city of Manaus, Casa Tarumã was designed based on several principles of passive sustainability to ensure the thermal comfort of its users: adequate installation, generous eaves, dimensioning, and orientation openings to maximize cross-ventilation, as well as the preservation of local ecological systems.

Tarumã House
© Joana França
Tarumã House
© Joana França
Tarumã House
© Joana França

To preserve a large part of the forest and minimize deforestation, the main architectural strategy was to insert the main volume in a cut through the sloping land, inverting the typical housing typology.

At Casa Tarumã, the rooms are located on the lower floor and the indoor living spaces, the outdoor seating, and the pool are located on the upper floor.

Tarumã House
© Joana França
Tarumã House
© Joana França
Tarumã House
© Joana França
Tarumã House
© Joana França

In order to optimize the relationship between external and internal spaces and to optimize exposure to climatic factors, the house was divided into two volumes: a longitudinal one and a small tower volume, accessible by narrow walkways.

The slender volume houses functions that need to be protected from the sun and rain, such as the living room, dining room, and suites, while the tower volume houses functions that do not need to be protected from the sun, such as the storage room, the laundry facilities on the lower floor and the pool and viewing platform on the upper floor.

Tarumã House
© Joana França
Tarumã House
© Joana França

Conceived as an independent structure from the rest of the house, the corten steel roof of the main volume features 2 pitches with an air draft at the rear, allowing the fruition of the winds and the creation of an air mattress between the roof and the cooled environments, allowing for a good thermal comfort of the living space of the house's upper floor.

The roof received a vertical plane on the setting sun side for greater protection from the equatorial sun and privacy of the house.

Tarumã House
© Joana França
Tarumã House
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The reduced width of the main volume was planned to ensure cross ventilation in all environments.

With its sliding windows on two sides, the glazed living room on the upper floor allows for total integration with the covered living room, the pool, and nature.

Tarumã House
© Joana França
Tarumã House
© Joana França

To paraphrase Armando de Holanda, this project's main goal was to create “a shady, open, continuous, vigorous, welcoming and involving architecture which, by putting us in harmony with the tropical environment, encourages us to live in it fully.”

Tarumã House
© Joana França
Tarumã House
© Joana França


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