Gutter House

Gutter House
© Maira Acayaba

Gutter House

Atelier Daniel Florez

PROJECT TEAM
Daniel Florez, Luis F.inglada , Stefan Kiellman ,wendy Cruz

ARCHITECTS
Atelier Daniel Florez

LOCATION
Brazil

YEAR
2021

GLT
Rewood

AREA
370 M²

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
 Marcio Medeiros, Enecol

GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Atelier Daniel Florez

CATEGORY
Houses

PHOTOGRAPHS
Maira Acayaba, Juan Gomez

MEP
Sergio Cardoso Dantas

Gutter House is a project of two paired beach houses for two friends in a fishing village in Sagi, a village in northeastern Brazil, the closest South American continental point to Europe.

Gutter House
Cortesia de ATELIER DANIEL FLOREZ
Gutter House
© Maira Acayaba

For centuries, the ships of the Portuguese Empire have sailed those waters swayed by the trade winds that they used for trading, fishing, and building cities and settlements.

Curiously, the anonymous architects who had the knowledge to erect the baroque cathedrals of those cities were the shipbuilders.

Gutter House
© Maira Acayaba
Gutter House
© Maira Acayaba
Gutter House
© Maira Acayaba

With their constructive knowledge of wood, transmitted for generations, they achieved great fame and prestige and erected the cathedrals of cities as important as the nearby Olinda, with its wooden structure crowned by majestic baroque domes.

The project, many centuries later, wants to poetically honor the memory of those architects and sailors and evoke the sensuality of the landscape and the mystery of the Ocean with its silent geometry.

The house is inserted into the urban landscape of elegant ceramic tilted houses, by drawing two amphibious waves of wood.

Gutter House
© Maira Acayaba
Gutter House
© Maira Acayaba

These undulations, at the same time that they dialogue with the dunes of the landscape, pour the water from the roof into a 22m-long concrete gutter covered in blue ceramic tiles that conduct the water to irrigate the plants on the rear façade creating a green protection against the strong sun of the evening.

Conceptually, the house is built as an inverted ship, with a succession of structural elements of laminated wood (ribs) fixed to a concrete gutter always visible inside the house.

Gutter House
© Maira Acayaba
Gutter House
© Maira Acayaba

The interior, conformed by a mantle of curved wooden and bamboo beams, evokes naval interiors with great sensuality and, together with the sculpted pillars like masts, the circular windows, the flooring fishing scales patterns, and the blue colors honor the craft and knowledge of those ancient and heroic sailor-architects.

With a double façade on both fronts and a double roof finished with wooden tiles, the project intends to insert itself silently into the landscape with minimal ecological impact.

Gutter House
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Cortesia de ATELIER DANIEL FLOREZ
Gutter House
Cortesia de ATELIER DANIEL FLOREZ
Gutter House
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