Casamirador Apartment Building, Belo Horizonte Homes, Brazilian Real Estate, Brasil Architecture Images
Casamirador Apartment Building in Belo Horizonte
31 July 2022
Design: Gisele Borges
Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Photos by Pablo Gomide
Casamirador Apartment Building, Brazil

The Casamirador Savassi residential building, completed in 2021, is located in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and features boldly designed architecture that stands out in the local landscape. The building has 14 lofts and 24 studios, and is spread over nine floors in a construction located on a narrow lot, with a width of 12.7 meters. The challenge of its volumetric mathematics, to respect distances, was one of the factors that influenced non-obvious decisions resulting in architecture created with its own identity.
The interdependence between the building?s structure and the architectural project enabled great creative freedom, culminating in the most prominent element: a second skin that ?wears? the building like a garment, giving it unique characteristics. The material used was aluminum, painted in an earthy reddish sepia tone that alludes to the abundance in Minas Gerais of raw ore.

In order to obtain lightness and transparency, the aluminum sheets received perforations in different sizes, and were made in an asymmetrical, yet harmonic way. That process makes it possible to see through them from the inside out, where city views are exposed through the skin. However, from the outs...