Slideshow feature: houses with retractable walls
Modernist architects working in tropical climates are increasingly designing homes where you can’t tell if you’re indoors or outdoors. In this special feature we explore the trend and speak to a Brazilian architect responsible for a series of spectacular homes that blur the distinction between home and garden (+ slideshow + interview).
This style of living is particularly prevalent in Brazil, where the warm climate allows residents to combine indoor and outdoor spaces. São Paulo architects Studio MK27 often follow this principle: the upper floors of the studio’s Casa Cubo appear to levitate above the open ground floor space and they’ve completed a project with sliding latticed timber panels as well.
“There is a constant search for enlargement of spaces and, obviously, the reasonably warm climate throughout almost all of Brazil collaborates with these solutions,” said architect Laura Guedes of Studio MK27. “Structural calculation in Brazil is usually very simple, we don’t have earthquakes or any problems of that sort.”
Guedes said that the roots of the typology stem from modernism’s adaptation to hotter weather when it arrived in the country during the first half of the twentieth century.
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This style of living is particularly prevalent in Brazil, where the warm climate allows residents to combine indoor and outdoor spaces. São Paulo architects Studio MK27 often follow this principle: the upper floors of the studio’s Casa Cubo appear to levitate above the open ground floor space and they’ve completed a project with sliding latticed timber panels as well.
“There is a constant search for enlargement of spaces and, obviously, the reasonably warm climate throughout almost all of Brazil collaborates with these solutions,” said architect Laura Guedes of Studio MK27. “Structural calculation in Brazil is usually very simple, we don’t have earthquakes or any problems of that sort.”
Guedes said that the roots of the typology stem from modernism’s adaptation to hotter weather when it arrived in the country during the first half of the twentieth century.
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