Located in São Paulo, Brazil, this modern two-storey house was designed in 2012 by Studio Arthur Casas.

Description by Studio Arthur Casas
This house is a project for a young couple from São Paulo. They challenged the Studio to overhaul an existing incomplete structure. We aimed to finish the house by bringing comfort and privacy within a dense urban context, next to close neighboring houses.
The division of the space is simple: garage and TV room in the basement; kitchen, dining, living room and terrace on the ground floor and bedrooms on the first floor. Though the structure had to be partially adapted, most of the openings were kept unchanged.
The Studio stimulated the ideas to ?dress? the house, which led to creating golden metal panels with perforations based upon a 19th century leaf engraving. This solution was sought to render the volume homogeneous, thus the proximity with the neighbors was attenuated and internal spaces were enriched by the moving light dots according to the sun position. If, on one hand, panels filter the sunlight and also indiscrete regards, on the other, we created an underground courtyard to bring natural light to the basement and a slit above the stairs to illuminate the vertical garden. The master bedroom has a generous window towards the backyard, where the landscape design created a small oasis within the city. A water basin intensifies the sensation of amplitude within the garden.
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