Native studio Bloco Arquitetos has accomplished a home in Brasília surrounded by brick screens and extensive entry portals that open up the central courtyard to the outside.
Often known as Casa Tupin, the 420-square-metre (4,520-square-foot) residence is rectangular with a big central courtyard.
The 2025 home, set in a gated group 20 kilometres from Brasília, was designed to combine the inside and exterior with the courtyard, which features as each the leisure area and the connective core of the house.
“A home with out home windows, that could be a window itself – relatively than opening punctual views, the venture seeks to remodel all the architectural physique right into a mediator between inside life and the encompassing panorama,” Bloco Arquitetos instructed Dezeen.
“This method ends in a constructing that engages the setting by way of efficiency relatively than transparency,” the studio stated.
As an alternative of enormous expanses of glazing, the vertical planes between the raised concrete slab and deep roof construction are coral-coloured brick – organized as stable partitions or breeze clock-like display – wrapping the home in texture and filtered mild.
Chosen for sturdiness and composition consistency, the brick and concrete shield the inside from extreme warmth. The restrained palette permits mild, shadow and time to change into a part of the structure, the studio defined.
“This porous facade acts concurrently as photo voltaic safety and as a everlasting air flow filter, permitting air to move in all instructions all through the home,” the studio stated.
“All areas are organized in relation to this technique, which integrates construction, local weather management and spatial expertise right into a single architectural technique.”
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The circulation, residing areas and personal areas are organized to maximise cross air flow and the thought of the home as a steady architectural expertise that follows the structural logic of the design.
Supported on 12 pillars, three-quarters of the plan is elevated above the bottom to tug pure air flow beneath the home, protect the present topography and permit the native crops of the Brazilian savana – or Cerrado – to develop beneath the residence.
“This elevation additionally permits the native small animals from Cerrado – largely lizards and burrowing owls – to maneuver freely between the skin backyard and the internal courtyard,” the studio stated, noting that the format additionally allowed for the preservation of an present tree on the centre of the courtyard.
Suspending the home and detaching it from the bottom helped the designers join the spatial idea with the environmental objectives.
“This structural readability allowed the constructing to look each secure and lightweight, reinforcing the thought of elevation as an architectural and environmental technique,” the studio stated.
“One other key achievement was reversing the notion of transparency – though the home seems closed and opaque from the skin, the inside is open, fluid and visually expansive.”
Different current residential tasks that use screens for air flow embody the renovation of a Puerto Rican dwelling by Paul Raff and a woven timber dwelling in Goa, India, by Discipline Atelier.
The pictures is by Joana França.
