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Casa Açucena in Minas Gerais
28 June 2022
Architects: TETRO Arquitetura
Location: Rua dos Jacarandás, 1012 – Jardins de Petrópolis – Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Photos by Jomar Bragança
Casa Açucena, Brazil
A place immersed in lush Atlantic Rainforest nature. A terrain filled with large leafy trees, foliage, shrubs, birds and wild animals. A challenging topography with a steep slope, characteristic of the Nova Lima region in Minas Gerais. This is the place where Casa Açucena is inserted.

The project is a response to a sensitive reading of the place. In a first contact with this terrain, it is already evident the need to maintain the natural characteristics. The act of looking upwards, from the ground to the canopy of trees, elevated up to fifteen meters above ground level, was decisive for the creation of the concept.
How to build in a place with such a steep topography, while maintaining the original nature" How to give the residents the daily experience of looking up and seeing the sky through the treetops. These were the questions that guided all design decisions.

The initial understanding that architecture should mold to the terrain, and not the other way around, was the starting point. The house rises above the ground and the animal and plant life develops underneath.

The program shapes itself by occupying the empty spaces between the tr...