Native structure observe Studio Arthur Casas has used dramatic cantilevers and overhangs to increase the quantity of a home with wooden and stone accents throughout a web site in São Paulo, Brazil.
Accomplished in 2025, Grama Home spreads throughout an acre nook lot with a sawtooth edge that permits this system to recede throughout the location.
“On this home, the inspiration got here from the location itself – a nook lot with open views and no instant visible obstructions – and from the will to create an structure that spreads out and breathes,” studio principal Arthur Casas advised Dezeen.
“We labored with horizontal planes and interlocking volumes that stretch towards the panorama, permitting the home to settle naturally into the terrain.”
The expansive program – totalling 1,800 sq. metres (19,375 sq. toes) – contains a floor ground that holds service areas and a storage topped by an enormous indoor/out of doors higher degree the place the remainder of the programme takes place.
The bottom degree consists of the massive storage to deal with the consumer’s automobile assortment. The higher degree incorporates the sleeping suites, lounge space and an workplace that cantilevers 11 meters over the house’s entrance to kind a porte-cochere.
This workplace is suspended by metal trusses fastened to 50-centimetre sq. columns.
“This house constitutes the venture’s essential structural gesture,” the studio stated.
“The technical complexity was heightened by the truth that the best stay load is concentrated on the cantilever’s extremity, the place fastened millwork is situated, demanding rigor in each detailing and execution.”
With the interaction of volumes and cantilevers, the residence features totally on one degree for simple, on a regular basis mobility.
The fabric palette goals to ascertain continuity between the outside and inside with metallic, a rough-stone and plaster combine, and Accoya wooden on the surface, transitioning to European oak and textured paint on the within. Tough stone with plaster defines each the facade and the within partitions.
“This selection reinforces materials unity and constructive coherence all through the residence, whereas making a steadiness between structural robustness and sensory consolation,” the studio stated.
Motorised brise-soleils unfold all through the home, drawing pure gentle and air by way of the areas.
“The cantilever, the break up ranges and the brise-soleil filtering the sunshine usually are not formal gestures – they’re exact selections to border views, carry gentle deep inside, and make the panorama an energetic presence in day by day life,” Casas stated.
“The result’s a home that’s clear, ventilated, and actually alive within the household’s routine.”
Established in 1990, Studio Arthur Casas has a group of architects, designers and urbanists that work throughout São Paulo, New York and Lisbon.
Beforehand, the studio created a vacation dwelling topped with a grass roof to mix in with a surrounding golf course, designed a prefabricated dwelling with SysHaus to keep away from “detrimental surprises” through the building venture and accomplished a clear home with sliding glass partitions that open the areas completely – all in Brazil.
The pictures is by César Béjar Studio.
Venture credit:
Writer: Arthur Casas
Inside supervisor: Eduardo Mikowski
Ornament supervisor: Gabriel Contreira
Illustration and inside architect: Amanda Tamburus, Augusto Godoy, Natalia Lorenzoni
Collaborators: OM Studio; Rodrigo Oliveira; Benedictis; Zamaro; LogiProject; Noise; Florense; Akkerman
Contractor: TNC Construções
Consultants: Fort Actual Property; Construplena
Suppliers: Lapa Backyard; E-light; TAAG; Unibox; Assistec; MC Movelaria; Taniguchi); RCA; CBP; Terracor; Allform; Amazona; Core
