KS House by Arquitetos Associados
Located in Natal, Brazil, this minimalist single family house was designed in 2016 by Arquitetos Associados.
Description by Arquitetos Associados
The design of this house was guided by the initial desire of privacy and the consideration of the site conditions, closed to the outside, but open to a large three-story internal void. The objective was to bring a spatial richness with the varying ceiling heights, large air volumes, and consequently an improved ambient comfort.
The created volume explores to full extent the parameters that regulate construction in the gated community: a minimum 5 meters setback at the front, 4 meters at the back, 2 meters on the sides, and a maximum of 7.5 meters high from 1.25 meter from the level of the first floor. [as long as it is at a maximum height of 1.25m from the natural terrain]. Three floors were created. On the lower level (half-buried), there are the garage and studios; on the first floor (semi-elevated), the social and living areas; and above (elevated), the intimate areas.
In the deliberate search for greater spatial variety and better accommodation of the program to the volume, the multiple levels were drawn with greater diversity instead of just sitting on top of each other. The other levels rise over the void. On the elevated first floor, two slabs extend on the building?s transversal axis, from a lateral façade to the other, connected by a bridge. The slab that sits towards the street shelters the living...
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