Laurent Troost Architects folds weathered steel roof over concrete house in Brazilian Amazon - architecture and design

Laurent Troost Architects folds weathered steel roof over concrete house in Brazilian Amazon



Brazilian firm Laurent Troost Architects has built a concrete house in the Amazon, featuring outdoor living areas and a swimming pool that are elevated above the dense tropical forest surrounds.
The property called Casa Campinarana is located in Manaus, a town in northwestern Brazil along the Negro and Amazon rivers. Laurent Troost designed the two-storey house to nestle within a campinarana, a forest characterised by small trees, whose soil is shallow and clay-like.

The house features a kitchen and living room on the top floor, as well as an elevated swimming pool. These spaces were built on the first floor rather than at grade to reduce the amount of buildable space on its ground floor.
"To minimise deforestation and preserve as much as possible of the forest, the main architectural strategy for construction in the 20 by 40 metre plot was the reversal of the classic housing typology," said Laurent Troost Architects.
The other aim for the project was to employ passive design strategies to suit the warm climate of the Amazonian setting. This included the creation of overhanging eaves to offer shading, openings for cross-ventilation, as well as the preservation of local ecological systems.

"The Amazon, more than any other area on the planet, requires climate-appropriate architectural strategies," the firm added.
"The natural and environmental conditions are extreme and the proximity of the equatorial zone requires an architecture oriented towards ...
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