Casa Pinhão

Casa Pinhão
© Leonardo Finotti
Casa Pinhão
© Leonardo Finotti

Casa Pinhão

Mareines Arquietura

PHOTOS
Leonardo Finotti (15)

STATUS
Built

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Campos do Jordão, Brazil

CATEGORY
Residential › Private House

Our first decision regarding how to approach the design of a house in Campos do Jordão , a city of temperate climate 1.600 meters above sea level in the mountains near São Paulo, was to avoid the local widespread European alps style.

Casa Pinhão
© Leonardo Finotti
Casa Pinhão
© Leonardo Finotti

We wanted to hear what the earth asked for with its trees and people. We found a place rich in crafty workers, a lush nature with beautiful altitude pine trees called ARAUCARIA and a climate that is dry and cold most of the year.

The building shape sprouted like a fallen PINHÃO, one of the many particles that form the fruit of the local ARAUCARIA trees.

Casa Pinhão
© Leonardo Finotti
Casa Pinhão
© Leonardo Finotti

An organic sinuous form that seems to weave through the trees and winds. Instead of stairs, ramps.

Instead of corridors, compressions and expansions of the internal sculptural contiguous spaces.

Casa Pinhão
© Leonardo Finotti
Casa Pinhão
© Leonardo Finotti

This manipulation of the spaces together with the use of ramps enhances the importance of the sensorial experience of the architecture.

The elliptical plan of the social level that also contains an indoor SPA with a swimming pool and sauna is very fluid and defined the built volume of the house.

Casa Pinhão
© Leonardo Finotti
Casa Pinhão
© Leonardo Finotti

Below, the social level is reached via a ramp that dims the light towards the most introspective space in the house, the wine cellar.

The entrance hall lies at this level providing the opposite experience for those ascending the ramp towards the living room.

Casa Pinhão
© Leonardo Finotti
Casa Pinhão
© Leonardo Finotti

A narrow dimly lit curved ramp is gradually flooded with light and astonishing views. Above the social level, there are four suites and a home office with 180 degrees views of the surrounding mountains and native ARAUCARIA trees.

The upper roof and its complex geometry is a clear reference to the above-mentioned PINHÃO.

We specified natural materials as wood, bricks and stone to enhance the organic nature of the project.

Casa Pinhão
© Leonardo Finotti


Casa Pinhão
© Leonardo Finotti
Casa Pinhão
© Leonardo Finotti


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