A proper balance as a goalTwo activities: live and work. Its two corresponding spaces, house and studio, have been shaped historically, as two quite clear architectonic typologies. 

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Architects: SPBR Arquitetos

Location: Orlândia, SP, Brazil

Area: 382.87 sqm

Project Year: 2012

Photographs: Nelson Kon

Project Team: Angelo Bucci [principal], João Paulo Meirelles de Faria, Juliana Braga, Tatiana Ozzetti, Nilton Suenaga

Collaborators: Victor Próspero, Fernanda Cavallaro, Lucas Nobre

Structure: Ibsen Puleo Uvo

Lighting: Ricardo Heder

Landscape: Raul Pereira

Constructor: Paulo Balugoli
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A proper balance as a goal
Two activities: live and work. Its two corresponding spaces, house and studio, have been shaped historically, as two quite clear architectonic typologies. 

© Nelson Kon

Our first goal to this project was to combine both in a single small building, firstly keeping their programmatic independence and secondly achieving a proper balance in the whole [not a house with a studio appended, neither a studio with an added house].

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It means, we would like to integrate both programs in such a way that both could live together with no conflicts. The studio should not be...