Piracaia Residence | Nitsche Arquitetos

The residence located in Piracaia, near São Paulo, is a project signed by Nitsche Arquitetos. The house was developed from a cut in the large terrain of 36.600m² with constant slope of 13%, providing the insertion of a concrete basement that houses garage, services and technical areas.

On this basis the social and intimate areas of the house develop on a unique, elevated level of natural terrain. The metal structure is guided by seventeen 3.80m modules that sometimes define a room, sometimes house two bathrooms, and sometimes unite in larger spaces such as the covered porch and dining and living rooms.

The large two-layer sandwich metal roof settles over this structure, defining different heights for the environments and allowing ventilation over the interior lining, where pre painted MDF and wooden beams form the structure.

Bedrooms and bathrooms are protected by wooden mashrabiyas that constitute bays in front of the bathrooms and the panel folding doors in the rooms. In the rooms the double height ceiling is guaranteed by the insertion of alveolar polycarbonate panels between the spans of the metal structure.

Large sliding glass doors allow the living rooms and kitchen to blend in with the covered area, blurring the boundaries between inside and outside, which the house insists to disrupt, either by the  infinity edge pool that visually unites with the dam, where the plot ends.

A large covered free standing space connects intimate and social areas allowing the landscape to cross the house.

DATASHEET                                                                    

Piracaia Residence

Location: Piracaia, São Paulo, Brazil.

Land Area: 36,600 m²

Building area: 1,400 m²

Covered area: 1,400 m² (860m² Ground floor / 300m² Lower / 240m² Home)

Floor area: 1,440 m²

Internal area: 495 m²

PROJECTS:

Architecture Team: Nitsche Arquitetos

Authors: Lua Nitsche and Pedro Nitsche / Coordinator: André Scarpa / Collaborators: Ari Miaciro Correia, Rodrigo Tamburus, Rosario Borges de Pinho and Tiago Kuniyoshi / Intern: Guilherme Bravin

Project Structure: Eng. Miguel Maratá - Teixeira Trigo Ltda.

Hydraulic and Electrical Installations Project: Marcelo Zamaro

Climate Control: Logitec

Furniture: Nitsche Furniture

Lighting Technician: Ricardo Heder - Lux Projetos

Landscaping: Juliana do Val - Gaia Projects

Photograph: Nelson Kon