Atelier Branco Arquitetura

Modico House

Modico House
© Federico Cairoli

MODICO HOUSE

Atelier Branco Arquitetura

PHOTOGRAPHS
Federico Cairoli

LANDSCAPE DESIGN
Julieta Fialho

AREA
300 m²

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Matteo Arnone, Pep Pons

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Brazil

CATEGORY
House

Modico House
© Federico Cairoli

Text description provided by architect.

In the north-east of Brasil, on the shore of São Miguel do Gostoso supported by the softest things: the wind and the clouds, rises casa Modico, one of the recent and characteristic projects by Atelier Branco.

Modico House
© Federico Cairoli
Modico House
© Federico Cairoli

The influence of the land and its connection to the wind has developed in the client and creator the will to imagine a proper response to local architectural traditions.

Therefore the building is respectful in the construction technology, it’s ecologically sustainable and is a reference point for the landscape.

Observing the longitudinal section rise the intention to create natural ventilation cruising every space of the house.

Modico House
© Federico Cairoli
Modico House
© Federico Cairoli
Modico House
© Federico Cairoli

Indeed the separations between the common spaces and the privates one are defined by a composition of bricks that creates a filter that facilitates ventilation.

The lightness in living these spaces is marked by the rhythm of the dance of the air, shaped by the wind.

Lightness has always been associated with the art of dance. Yet even this exuberant art is very connected to its opposite, the discipline.

Modico House
© Federico Cairoli
Modico House
© Federico Cairoli

Given the topography of the site, the section determines the resolution of the project, two similar volumes located on a flat landscape, one meter above the sea level.

In the project are defined two principal axes, the first one cuts perpendicularly the ocean and connects all the common areas defining the sequence the symmetry of the house.

The second one parallel to the waters of the ocean benefits the natural resources for the ventilation, either as emptiness or as a filter. Four doors of different sizes introduce into each common area.

Modico House
© Federico Cairoli
Modico House
© Federico Cairoli
Modico House
© Federico Cairoli

At the arrival we find the smallest as the entrance to the house.

Two identical doors open onto the interior patio, where we find a long wooden table of 7 m, the second identical door welcomes us in the living room with just a piece of furniture: a sofa in front of the ocean.

A 3x3m door lets us on the wooden deck, 80 sqm of a stage on the beach.

Modico House
© Federico Cairoli
Modico House
© Federico Cairoli

Four identical rooms develop along with this system, in these rooms the inside-outside view is filtered by a wall of horizontal wooden slats that produces a kind of fade in the vibration of light.

Here as well the simplicity of form and colors: the balance of the walls, the natural wood of the blinds and the grey of the concrete floor are a quality that comes through a path and a project that is not simple, which indeed requires maturity, wisdom and courage.

The ability to remove, to clear to get to the essentiality. Simplicity is clarity. Clarity is elegance, substance, honesty and therefore moral beauty.

Modico House
© Federico Cairoli


Modico House
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Modico House
© Federico Cairoli
Modico House
© Federico Cairoli
Modico House
© Federico Cairoli
Modico House
© Federico Cairoli
Modico House
© Federico Cairoli
Modico House
© Federico Cairoli
Modico House
© Federico Cairoli


Modico House
© Federico Cairoli
Modico House
© Federico Cairoli
Modico House
© Federico Cairoli
Modico House
© Federico Cairoli


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