The modern house was a getaway house erected in the city of Piracicaba, 250km away from São Paulo.The house design was purposed to serve as a meeting point for a family whose members were scattered across various cities around the state.The 2,000m2 (21,500 ft2) land generated from merging 2 corner-lots in a gated condominium.Not only did the position of the house considered the sloping contour of the land, but also its orientation (North), as to provide the bedrooms and social areas with the best possible sunlight.
The distribution on 3 floors arranged in perpendicular axes gave the land displacement to be overcome naturally, and created the garden accessible from any floor:
- the lower ground, semi subterranean and placed in the lowest level of the land, parallel to the contour lines, houses storage areas, the mechanical room and garage.
- the ground floor, set as an L and accessible from the street through an S-shaped ramp, houses the service areas and the lounge/dining room – the latter, fully wrapped in glass, on one side overlooks the back portion of the land. It appeared with the pool deck through wide sliding doors; on the other side, was protected from the sun and isolated from the street by a long sun baffle made of large vertical concrete slabs, unevenly placed along the whole facade.
- the upper floor, a volume that stretched perpendicularly to the contour of the land and that, at one end, sustained towards the street, and at the other was placed on the higher section of the land, houses the bedrooms and the den – the latter opening onto a large wooden deck, established on the ceiling slab over the lounge/dining room. The swimming pool was set in the nook of the “L” formed by the social and service areas, and the slope rising to the higher sections of the land.
This minimalist house by Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld consisted of three perpendicular volumes built into a slope in Piracicaba, Brazil. A half-submerged garage and storage area was the lowest of three elements and punctuated by a series of concrete pillars. Above, the ground floor, an L-shaped plan was formed with the living and dining space in one wing and the kitchen and services in the other. The ground floor, there was a curtain wall of glazing in front of the living and dining room. Views of a swimming pool were afforded. The adjacent wing was covered in vertical concrete slabs. The first floor, which housed the bedrooms, there was above the kitchen and serviced with a roof terrace formed over the other wing. All photographs were by Nelson Kon and Luiza Sigulem.
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