Tropical Houses, Green House in Northeastern Brazil

Description architect on this project the green house:
Mundaú coastal fishing village in the state of Ceara in northeastern Brazil. 3 of 10?42.51 “south” Equator, the year is divided into wet and dry seasons, with temperatures between 22 º C to 33 º C. Heavy rains from January to July to provide fertile ground vegetation bloom until Christmas.

Customers who want to rent a house with three bedrooms that allows many opportunities for contact with nature. Our solution is not a traditional domestic architecture – close to the volume of internal circulation – the gallery during the three-story house, and representing 50% of the total area. Thegallery surrounding skin and suspended wooden roof, shelter from sun and cold winds kept transparent to the South, avoiding the need for air conditioning.

We have designed the system to the earth, sun and shadow, coconut and other palm trees, sand dunes and sea, which will complement the design of the house, shows the concentration and nature of the sensual experience closely and date.
3rd Floor: 3 landscapes using a completely different way and natural approach. 1: podiums, on street level, overlooking the park. Two additional low-cost housing functions of the volume of open space for living, with views of the garden in the shade of the house above. 2: Rooms are available through the tunnel, which is covered in bark that define privacy, views, ventilation and shade, the latter as a living decoration.Roughness of the stone walls of handmade brick, painted white ice. 3: Dwelling in the trees, wooden house on top of a concrete house. This allows for open space for glass panels 3.20 m, melt the coconut trees, sand dunes and sea in the plan, in the open.

Another house was here first, take the weak, although a rational structure.Development of new homes throughout the skeleton, which is reinforced to hold the wooden house at the top. Difficulty of access to Mundaú took us beyond the architecture: we have designed everything from property to accommodate the system with sliding doors with a bed belt and wax, is a construction company, to finish building 490 square meters in 7 months. Outside of special works, such as glass and the kitchen facilities, the construction carried out by local builders and carpenters, with several generations of experience in local materials and techniques, and mechanical equipment a few: it is a building made with hands. The superposition of independent structure, roof overhang on the contrary, the size of the glass panels of the new features in this region.

intervention consists of landscape design elements that agricultural land turned into a tropical garden. We chose trees and clearing land, leaving the sand on the surface.Irrigation canal parallel, which divides the land, will be redesigned as a park along the diagonal. We have established this site rocks and granite of the home version of a special area in the garden: passion fruit table Bower, access roads under cashew trees generous man, a green haven. For walls, we have generated from precast concrete panels to form a perforated pattern of light and shadow from the nearby foliage, and allow to penetrate, see the garden is limited. Shakes the wind through the wall of water and leaves, creating a cool microclimate during the dry season.

to achieve passive cooling through the gallery: protect the interior from the tropical sun, leaving them permeable to the mountain wind. Protect bark that wraps around the gallery filter light, privacy of the bedroom and places of interest frame.Drinkablewater get it from the roof, the depth of flow or transported by truck, then filtered, and kept the pressure taps. The energy generated by solar and wind, intense in this region, or accepted by the public network. Plumbing, electricity, gas and telecommunication services that are available in two vertical cores from the kitchen 5 bathrooms and 2 for maintenance. With no public sewage system, we design a super efficient skeptic tank anaerobic filter cleaning by up to 90% of the waste. The strategy on energy and home services that is unprecedented in the region.

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