The architects were Fernando Maculan e Pedro Morais, collaborated with Leonardo Colucci, Leonardo Paes, Ricardo Cordeiro e Roberta Vasconcellos. It was built on 475 sqm. The plot area reached 3000 sqm.
This modern house was situated in a low-density housing district in the surroundings of the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, southeast of Brazil. The house still maintained great part of the original vegetation, mainly formed by dense amount of thin and long trees covering the hills and helping provided a spectacular view from the site. The house design became a permanent residence for a young couple still without children, but willing to have two or three in a near future. The project was according to a relatively simple composition solution, concerning a not so simple topographic condition of building a house in a slope with 60% constant inclination. According to the client’s aim, it was purposed to have a really unique contemporary house, able to provide them comfort for day life and having their many friends home at free times. It should also be placed up high on the hill, in a way the beautiful view could be admired above the dense surrounding vegetation. Despite its generous size (3000 sqm), the plot possessed very difficult access and occupation condition.
The adopted solution got by the creation of a solid block well accommodated on the terrain, having over it a “floating” slab, softly supported by two concrete blocks. The establishment of this solid block, together with the extension of the plateau pavement to the back established a large inhabitable area, where the two closed blocks were put and around which the couple’s friends could get together. One of these blocks was the TV room and the other the kitchen, with its two balcony-windows: one opening in and another opening out. Between these two blocks, closed only by sliding glass panels, there was the living room where most of the home activities took place. At the lower solid block, rooms demanding more divided areas were put: bedrooms, restrooms and laundry, all of them facing the view. The access to the house, initially thought to be made by a “funicular”, had been replaced by a winding ramp, but keeping the original privacy inversion: social areas on top and private areas on the lower floor. Together with this change, the house plateau had also been rebuilt, in order to accommodate car parking on it, below the top slab that also covered the main living area.
Architectural photographer Leonardo Finotti sent images of a house near Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The unique house was designed by Fernando Maculan and Pedro Morais. It was on a steep slope, a deep, concrete base houses the private rooms of the residence. On the upper level glass walls separated a kitchen, living room and TV room, over which two pillars supported a large slab of concrete
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