Glass walls slides and fold open to completely reveal the living spaces of this house in Brazil by Studio Arthur Casas, allowing residents to look out on their swimming pool and over the golf course beyond (+ slideshow).

Casa MS is situated at the Fazenda Boa Vista golf resort, around 100 kilometres west of São Paulo. It was designed by local firm Studio Arthur Casas for a couple with three grown-up daughters.
The plot follows the edge of the golf course ? not far from the clubhouse designed by Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld.

This location provides the building with extensive views of the nearby woods to the south, which led Studio Arthur Casas to position most of the glazing along this edge of the building.
Only a selection of windows were added to the street-facing northern facade, ensuring natural sunlight is able to enter the building.
"The solution was to arrange the spaces following the latitudinal axis of the plot in a manner that would provide framed views to the landscape and bring the sunlight altogether," said the studio.

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Four bedrooms for the family's daughters and guests are arranged along the northern edge of the ground floor, with large hinged wooden shutters and a densely planted garden protecting them from the road.

When the shutters are closed, they form a solid surface above and below a strip of pale brick that marks the sep...