Tuna Architecture

239 House

239 HOUSE

UNA Arquitetos

239 House
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ARCHITECTS
UNA Arquitetos

LANDSCAPING
Soma Arquitetos

MANUFACTURERS
Casa Franceza, Marcenaria Da Fazenda, Pau Pau

CONSTRUCTOR
Adm. E Resp. Técnica Eng. Antonio Nogueira

AUTHORS
Cristiane Muniz, Fábio Valentim, Fernanda Barbara, Fernando Viégas

COLLABORATORS
Joaquin Gak, Henrique Te Winkel, Marcos Bresser, Otávio Filho, Pedro Ivo, Rodrigo Carvalho Pereira

LIGHTNING DESIGN
Ricardo Heder

TRANSLATION TO ENGLISH
Natalia de Campos

FRAMES AND WOOD WORK
Marcenaria Da Fazenda

STRUCTURE
Cia de Projetos

INSTALLATIONS
Pessoa e Zamaro

WATERPROOFING
Proassp

PHOTOGRAPHS
Nelson Kon

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
São Paulo, Brazil

CATEGORY
Houses

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Text description provided by the architects.

A house designed for a particular family, even when one always creates a project suitable to anyone.

Tending to be more feminine than masculine, the house embraces a 50-year-old fruit tree (a Jabuticabeira) at the center of the plot.

239 House
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239 House
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It shapes a small courtyard towards which every room opens: a porch, a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a study room and a bedroom.

The bending in of both of its wings aims at closer views of the tree and also of themselves, as in two small houses overlooking each other.

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239 House
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The morning sunlight bathes the children bedrooms, and hits the facade with a fold on the concrete wall, which defines the entrance of the house.

Other large trees, such as the Tipuanas, Jerivás, Palmeiras and Pitangueiras remain in the edges of the original plot.

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239 House
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To benefit from the view of these trees tops, along with the views of the city, a swimming pool and a terrace fill the entire rooftop.

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Site Plan - Landscape
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