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Cerrado House in Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte Home, Contemporary Property in Moeda, Brazil – design by Vazio S/A architects
24 Oct 2017
Cerrado House in Minas Gerais
Design: Vazio S/A, architects
Location: Moeda, Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
Cerrado House

The Cerrado is one of the country?s seven biomes and covers an area of 1.5 million km². It holds about a third of all Brazilian biodiversity, 5% of the world?s flora and fauna, and is home to the headwaters of the three largest hydrographic basins in the country (Amazon, São Francisco, and Paraná/ Paraguay). It has a unique flora and stands out for its generously-spaced trees and low-slung brushwood, blending into a South-American variation on the African savannah and the European steppe. Given its ecological, geopolitical and cultural specificities, the Cerrado is considered the biome of national integration.
The soils of the Cerrado were once regarded as too acidic to farm. But since agronomists began applying industrial quantities of lime in the 1980s, these soils have been transformed. The Cerrado now produces 70% of Brazil?s agricultural output.

In recent years, the rate of ecological destruction of the Cerrado has been twice that of the Amazon, and while the majority of the Amazon rainforest survives, more than 60% of the Cerrado?s former 200 million hectares has disappeared under the plough, and most...