Two main goals have led the design process: [1] not touch the ground; [2] to create an outside platform where topography, with 50% of slope, has provided any flat piece of land.

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Architects: SPBR Arquitetos

Location: Ubatuba, SP, Brazil

Architect In Charge: Angelo Bucci

Area: 350.4 sqm

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Nelson Kon

Project Team: Tatiana Ozzetti, Nilton Suenaga, Ciro Miguel, Juliana Braga, Fernanda Cavallaro, Victor Próspero,

Structural Engineer: Marcelo José Bianco, Ricardo Bozza (Inner Engenharia)

Plumbing / Electrical: JPD

Landscape Architect: Raul Pereira
General Contractor: José Bernardino E. de Sousa

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From the architect. Two main goals have led the design process: [1] not touch the ground; [2] to create an outside platform where topography, with 50% of slope, has provided any flat piece of land.

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This weekend house itself was arranged in one main square prism: 10m by 10m and 6m high.

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This volume was placed properly detached from the street, where the ground level was deep enough to accommodate two enclosed floors and an open space underneath.

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Its rooftop provides that outside platform as a belvedere welco...