Pix House

Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro

PIX House

Candida Tabet Arquitetura

ARCHITECTS
Candida Tabet Arquitetura

PHOTOS
Cristiano Mascaro (1)

STATUS
Built

AREA
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

BUDGET
Undisclosed

YEAR
2010

LOCATION
Campos do Jordão, Brazil

TYPE
Residential › Private House

This project is an architectural intervention done on a single-family house.

Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro

At the request of the client, the existing house and the local architectural memory and identity should be preserved in order to avoid unnecessary construction waste.

Therefore, we went on a search for coincident alignments that would allow us to unify the isolate buildings and transform them into a unit.

Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro

We took over the central patio void, which we covered in large glass sheets supported by steel columns and beams forming a freestanding structure, independent from the existing fragile walls, and as an architectural hiatus, we invaded and dressed this void with the purpose of joining the buildings.

As a result, we unified the two volumes in a way that allowed the tropical sunlight to take over the surrounding outdoor area and its mutating situation.

Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro

Traces of the existing house and its human lives and the relations that were part of that house gave the new installation a singular rhythm, creating a pattern of atrium, chamber and patio with different ceiling heights.

The initial frustration once we approached the original house was substituted by an enthusiasm embedded on discovering new possibilities and unique results derived from adversities emerged from multicultural facets and influences.

Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro

Stairs and walkways alternate between pleated steel boards and stacked bricks are an opportunity to create plasticity through architecture.


Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro
Pix House
© Cristiano Mascaro


Pix House
Pix House