Defined by a striking cantilever, Casa Cigarra is a composition of architectural volumes, green spaces and water in the Brazilian countryside 🇧🇷
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The family home, set on a steep slope in upstate Sao Paulo, is as dramatic, as it is functional – a direct response to its topography’s potential and the client’s need for a generous home that can be both a private retreat and a place for entertaining, and combines inside and outside effortlessly. Conceived as two distinct volumes, stacked on top of each other at an odd angle, the structure has a clear internal arrangement; private areas, such as bedrooms, as well as the garage and service rooms, are located on the more discrete, lower level, enveloped in solid, exposed concrete that anchors the composition to the ground. Upstairs, the seemingly floating glass and metal ‘wing’ that juts out over the hill wrapped in sun-shading ‘fins’, contains the living spaces.
‘These last 10 years have been very productive for FGMF. One of our firm goals has been to work with different project scales, from a chair to an urban project, and we achieved it,’ say the founders. ‘But even with so much transformation, our approach remains to challenge our own knowledge and experience from investigative projects, which constantly take us out of our comfort zone and force us to learn and look for different solutions.
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