Casa RCM | Ibiuna Brazil | Metroo

The intent of this project was to maintain the conformation and the most original vegetation of the land to deploy an extensive construction program. For this house was torn between a basement unevenly, with areas of collective use open and direct contact with the ground, and a regular high volume, with a central void which guarantees the privacy of the bedroom wing. The reinforced concrete structure and steel, with large spans and balances gives ample space, suspended, without the constriction of walls or pillars. Thanks to this structural configuration, where the slabs are part of large hanging metal beams located on the roof, declined to intervene in the natural terrain to a minimum and allowed the building to float between the trees....more

Date of project: 2009
Architecture design:
Corullon Martin, Anna Ferrari, Gustavo Cedroni
Land area: 1,200 m²
Built area: 750 m²
Design of structures: Projects Co. - Eng Heloisa Maringoni

House SMA Sao Paulo, Brazil By Metroo

For the intervention on this house, we took to the limit the following design strategy: grouping the networks of infra-structure and the service and supporting spaces. That decision originated the creation of a volume which runs longitudinally along the site and which, besides contributing to the efficiency of the hidraulic, heating, cooling and electrical systems, strongly qualifies the spaces constituted by it. The whole project is synthesized by the designing of that volume. It assembles all the technical systems of the house and also configures the working and living spaces, creates porches to access those spaces, giving them a distinctive character and, with that, it transforms the infra-structure of the building, attributing a perceptible shape to which is usually hidden. Thus, associating project values to the technical networks through the organization and expression of their arrangement in space, their use is potentialized by new attributions and allows an important economy in the construction.The most notable aspect of this strategy is the potential for its application of different scales of the intervention. It is possible to think of urban infra-structural networks which, through simple design operations, have a very positive impact. Public transportation networks, supply and draining channels, connections between intermodal systems, can become catalyzers of urban events which exceed their specific technical attributions.

Date of project: 2006
Completion of construction: 2007
Architectural design:
Martin Corullon, Anna Ferrari and Gustavo Cedroni
Carolina Castro [collaborator], Ricardo Carvalho [trainee]
Area of site: 2154 sq ft
Construction area:2154 sf ft
Structural design: Coluna Estrutural Eng. Luis Flávio de Carvalho
Installations: MA2 Engenharia Eng. Ricardo Andretta
Management: Eng. Ricardo Aidar
Construction: DP Unique Eng. Francisco Vasconcellos Neto and Daniel Garbini
Landscaping: BONSAI paisagismo Ricardo Vianna
Lighting design: REKA Photographs: Leonardo Finotti.......more