UNA barbara e valentim

House 11

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Located on the south coast of Alagoas, facing the sea, Casa Onze is delicately inserted into this landscape. The house is organized around a large internal garden with species typical of the region’s biome.

A large marquee that can accommodate a variety of uses defines the access to the house. Circulation on the ground floor is always through balcony spaces, which openly integrate different environments.

The program is distributed in two volumes: a horizontal slab, which contains the internal garden, social areas, services and guest accommodation, and a raised volume with family accommodation, which enjoys extensive views of the beach. A large void above the living room integrates the spaces on both floors. The living and dining rooms, completely transparent and protected by large verandas, dialogue simultaneously with the two scales of landscape present in the project: the extensive beach with its sea views, and the contained scale of the internal garden.

The layout of the program maximized natural lighting and ventilation for all the rooms, and the systematic use of the verandas as transitional spaces was fundamental to ensuring the comfort of the house. The integration of the pool into the volume of the house offers areas of shade also in the water. The roofs are occupied by gardens, in a way that integrates the volumes into the natural landscape.

Place

Pitúba, AL

Project start date

2020

Architecture

UNA barbara e valentim
Fabio Valentim e Fernanda Barbara

Collaborators

Luís Mauro Freire, Tamar Firer, Victória Liz Cohen, Breno Sá Leitão, Rodrigo Carvalho, Pedro Ribeiro
Interns: Alexandre Makhoul, Ícaro Cordaro

Renders

Rodrigo Carvalho Pereira

Concrete Structure and Foundations

Maratá Engenharia

Building Installations

Maratá Engenharia

Lighting Design

Ricardo Héder

Landscaping

Arqui M

Construction

Nobre e Piatti

Photos

André Scarpa (May 2024)

Drone photos

Charles Northrup (February 2024)