Casa Jordão, SP House, Contemporary Weekend Residence, Brazilian Residential Building, Images
Casa Jordão in Monte-Mor, SP
Contemporary Holiday House in Brasil – design by FGMF Arquitetos
5 Nov 2019
Casa Jordão in Monte-Mor, SP
Architecture: FGMF Arquitetos
Location: Monte-Mor, SP, Brazil

The Casa Jordão Project, a holiday home, started as the clients? idea to make a single-story building, integrated to the land, promoting families? social interaction. It is located in a stud farm, which has certain restrictive rules regarding appearance and architecture, and among them, the one that affected us the most was the compulsory requirement to use a clay roof, which is very common in Brazil, with at least two versants.
Having these issues in mind, we started from a residence archetype, almost like a child?s drawing; two walls, two versants. The first idea of a residence. From these simple sketches, we began making a kind of extrusion, creating a pavilion, or large barn.

We then resolved to sectorize and duplicate these blocks, creating an interior garden between them, which also provides access to the house. In the block that has more contact with the remainder of the land and garden, we positioned the social areas and kitchen, which in this context is a reversible interaction area, and in the more isolated and private block, we placed the several bedrooms and children?s playground.

Once the sectorization has been settled, we started working in volumes. Instead of...