Text description provided by the architects. A few blocks away from the sea, a dead-end street surrounded by dense coastal vegetation, goes in through the lot`s ground up to the limit of its furthermost wall. A sequence of spaces, at times covered at times uncovered, marks the rhythm of this route and dissolves the distinction between inside and outside.

Ground Floor Plan

The continuous gaze is interrupted only by prisms covered in corten steel – a living mineral, almost vegetal in its metamorphosis by oxidation – which has functions of support to the house’s social spaces. Four meters above, containing private functions, another prism floats, white as the walls of the colonial house, but effusively perforated, excavated, so as to let in all the way to the soil and to its own interior, the sunlight, the views of the mountains and the surrounding vegetation.

Section B

Through its gaps, arises the possibility of the unexpected encounter, between the natural and the rational, between the private and the social or even the simplest visual interaction between two individuals. A major quantity of the house furniture was made with wood reused from the concrete formwork.

© Pedro Kok

• Architects

  Aleph Zero

• Location

  Matinhos, Brazil

• Category

  Houses

• Architects in Charge

  Gustavo Utrabo, Pedro Duschenes

• Team

  Ana Julia Filipe, Marina Oba, Yuri Vasconcelos, Thaylini Luz, Daniela Moro, Gabriel Tomich, Nicolie Duarte

• Area

  512.76 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Pedro Kok, Humberto Utrabo Junior