An entranceway lined with planks of red-brown wood punctures the concrete facade of this family members property arranged close to a courtyard in Brazil .
São Paulo studio Studio Guilherme Torres created AN Residence for a couple with three teenage daughters in Maringá, a city in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná.
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The concrete and timber developing is organized across three blocks that form a U-shape around a decked courtyard with a pool. Social regions including a residence theatre are set at ground level, whilst four bedrooms occupy the upper storey.
Access to the creating is acquired through a wood-lined porch and corridor that presents itself as a wooden box set into the board-marked concrete of the street-dealing with facade.
“The lobby was organised in a large wooden box, like a theatre stage,” explained the architect.
This corridor – lined in native cumaru wood – prospects right into a marble-lined residing room with chunky leather sofas decorated with buttons that generate a quilted result.
This region types one branch of the U-shaped residing spot. Two more sections offer area for the home theatre, a kitchen and a guest suite, all arranged about the edge of a wide sundeck and swimming pool. Gaps in the stone boundary walls are plugged with tropical plants.
A 2nd storey over the kitchen contains a modest lounge and three bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and a more substantial master bedroom suite, which all face out over the courtyard.
Even though the ground floor volumes are produced from exposed concrete, this level is created in contrasting white-rendered brickwork. A connecting hallway is clad in cumaru wood and a lengthy skylight runs overhead.
The street-facing facade is entirely enclosed, providing privacy for the bedrooms, while the courtyard-dealing with facet is fronted by a narrow balcony.
This balcony rests on the flat roofs of the two single-storey wings. Wooden shutters positioned in front of the bedroom windows create a brise soleil that shades the interior from the heat of the sun’s rays.
“Due to sizzling climate most of the 12 months, building favours massive open spans, cross-flow and in some places the use of wooden brise soleils,” said the architect.
Photography is by MCA Estúdio/Denilson Machado.
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1st floor strategy 
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