Project: Design and build two architectural spaces (workshop and home). The project aims to design, design and build an atelier and a house outside of São Paulo. The construction located in the city of Ubatuba, has as its first objective to build the atelier. With the workshop ready and the joinery installed, we propose to build a house located on the same land. The construction of the Fortaleza workshop began in the second half of 2013 and has a deadline of the end of the year 2014. The project was developed by the two artists Laila Terra and Renzo Assano and 80% of the construction was done by them.
Concepts that govern the projects:
-natural lighting
-natural temperature control
dry-building
-building techniques at our fingertips
-use of efficient materials that generate less waste and do not pollute the environment
- »naked house» (exhibition of the pure materials, without hiding them with the finish)
- atelier: partitions of space from the illumination of each environment
- house: space dividers from the relation between color and light
Environmental factors:
- region of Atlantic Forest
-tropical weather
- high humidity level
-big number of animals and insects
-Very warm in summer and cold in winter
strong winds in winter
Proposal of the house and the studio: We design a project in which the two buildings are made on a stilt (raised from the ground). The stilt allows important air circulation under the house, keeping it cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The elevation of the buildings also prevents them from receiving moisture from the earth, keeping the house always dry. The third factor that contributes to a stilt construction in the Ubatuba region is to keep the buildings furthest from the forest animals, such as snakes, skunks and various insects.
Natural Lighting: The proposal of both the studio and the house was to design two constructions that were not necessary to turn on the lights during the day, always using natural lighting. Both projects use as few walls as possible, keeping almost all of the building open with sliding windows. At the points where we noticed that the lighting was weaker, we designed clear buoys, thus allowing light to enter, but, in order to avoid entering the heat and UV of the sun, we use Alveolar Polycarbonate, which protects the environment of and has a thermal quality.
Structure: We opted for a dry construction. In view of the fact that the buildings are located in a preservation region, we chose a structure that would not generate residues in the earth, in case it occurs with the use of cement. We design the projects with a steel frame. Steel is an environmentally friendly material, which does not produce waste, without waste, with simple maintenance over time and mainly reduces construction time considerably.
The choice of steel also made it possible for us to be independent in the construction.
Roof: We propose a new technique, the direct use of OSB Home plates, coated with a thermal liquid blanket. Same technique used in the current constructions of Europe and the United States. Without using the tile, with an almost flat roof and already with the apparent finish, we managed to eliminate the lining, which in the regions of Atlantic forest serve as animal dwellings such as possums, bats, birds and snakes, besides the gutters that are very difficult to to control themselves with the clay tiles and difficult to notice with the lining.
Concepts that govern the projects:
-natural lighting
-natural temperature control
dry-building
-building techniques at our fingertips
-use of efficient materials that generate less waste and do not pollute the environment
- »naked house» (exhibition of the pure materials, without hiding them with the finish)
- atelier: partitions of space from the illumination of each environment
- house: space dividers from the relation between color and light
Environmental factors:
- region of Atlantic Forest
-tropical weather
- high humidity level
-big number of animals and insects
-Very warm in summer and cold in winter
strong winds in winter
Proposal of the house and the studio: We design a project in which the two buildings are made on a stilt (raised from the ground). The stilt allows important air circulation under the house, keeping it cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The elevation of the buildings also prevents them from receiving moisture from the earth, keeping the house always dry. The third factor that contributes to a stilt construction in the Ubatuba region is to keep the buildings furthest from the forest animals, such as snakes, skunks and various insects.
Natural Lighting: The proposal of both the studio and the house was to design two constructions that were not necessary to turn on the lights during the day, always using natural lighting. Both projects use as few walls as possible, keeping almost all of the building open with sliding windows. At the points where we noticed that the lighting was weaker, we designed clear buoys, thus allowing light to enter, but, in order to avoid entering the heat and UV of the sun, we use Alveolar Polycarbonate, which protects the environment of and has a thermal quality.
Structure: We opted for a dry construction. In view of the fact that the buildings are located in a preservation region, we chose a structure that would not generate residues in the earth, in case it occurs with the use of cement. We design the projects with a steel frame. Steel is an environmentally friendly material, which does not produce waste, without waste, with simple maintenance over time and mainly reduces construction time considerably.
The choice of steel also made it possible for us to be independent in the construction.
Roof: We propose a new technique, the direct use of OSB Home plates, coated with a thermal liquid blanket. Same technique used in the current constructions of Europe and the United States. Without using the tile, with an almost flat roof and already with the apparent finish, we managed to eliminate the lining, which in the regions of Atlantic forest serve as animal dwellings such as possums, bats, birds and snakes, besides the gutters that are very difficult to to control themselves with the clay tiles and difficult to notice with the lining.
drawings and ideas
process
the studio
