A house that is partly buried into the Brazilian landscape
In a lavish corner from Itatiba, BrazilFelipe Hess Arquitetos decides to lean into the complex area instead of smoothing it with his house of dos pátios. The weekend residence In São Paulos Land, the mountain top declaration skipped and instead decides to make almost invisibility. Here the architecture is less a megaphone than a whisper that reacts to the area and is sensitive to the hill.
The Dos Pátios' house is not on its location – it is planted. The one -story house wraps around a central inner courtyard, with the main volume slipping between the boulder as if it should always be there. Felipe Hess achieves a lightness by sometimes burying sections of the house into the sloping area and minimizing the visual effects. The result is a residence that feels more like an expansion of the landscape than a disturbance in which the vegetation flows fluently from interiors to the outside and exhales the structure into the landscape.
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House gradually unfolds patics
The spatial organization of the DOS Pátios House from Felipe Hess Arquitetos applies like its location. Private rooms – bedroom and quieter zones – are positioned by the Architect In the back of the house, shielded from elegant wooden parasols that enable filtered light inside and at the same time maintain the privacy of the neighbors. These screens modulate sunlight and create a gentle dialogue with the rear courtyard that offers moments of the break. In the meantime, social areas circulate the central garden terrace and give the home a double character: introverted in some places, extroverted to others. The movement between these sun zones unfolds slowly and deliberately.
Felipe Hess Architects designs the patos house as a discrete weekend -retreat in Itatiba, Brazil
Felipe Hess Architects celebrates lush nature
The material palette, which shapes the DOS Pátios house, reinforces the ethos of the architectural humility of Felipe Hess Arquitetos. There is no shine, no decoration – just honesty in shape and finish. Textures and tones are kept calm so that the surrounding geology can speak louder. The house accepts the attitude of a guest in the country: reserved, respectful and ready to listen. Even the volumes are cut softly, with subtle geometries that nod on the natural contours of the area instead of overriding them.
In essence, the house of Dos Pátios is an exercise in coexistence. By taking the original characteristics of the location, in particular the huge stones, which once represented a design challenge, it transforms its restrictions into composition elements. The circulation paths are intuitive, draw light and air through every corner, while the courtyard becomes both a heart and hinge. Instead of having a house with a view, it is a house within the view. A place where contemporary life is not carved into nature, but has grown with it.
The house is partially buried to reduce its visual effects and to connect it to the landscape
The DOS Pátios' house is embedded in a sloping area with large natural boulders
Movement between the sunlitis house unfolds slowly and deliberately