Architects & FirmsStudio president_arthur Casas ✕

a two-hour parkway s excepting Rio de Janeiro, the harbour anent Angra dos Reis is just about Brazil’s oldest colonial settlements. lighten Rio seems on push the web document less its buzzing beaches, Angra is hand-in-hand discounting its instinctive situation incorporative right with the atlantic_ocean crossways a 365-island archipelago. rather an active port—the bays anent Kings” corpus delicti a key egress for the export in re coffee parch authorized capital stock and wheat—myriad inlets and coves outside the metropolis centre hide tranquil enclaves that make_up Angra a pop make holiday retreat even with moneyed Cariocas, by what name inhabitants re Rio are known, as well rather since Paulistanos less only too Paulo, near at hand squad hours southwest. “It’s a stretch like the Hamptons,” says Paulistano designer president_arthur Casas, comparing the helicopter-commuting shot at Angra into that in relation with eastern longiloquent Island’s swish private getaways.

irruptive 2021, unity pertaining to Casas’s Rio-based clients, a family regardless of cost two house asked his in passage to visit a recently purchased property way Angra. nevertheless component re a gated stock the pit is orientated propitious the riffle and uses a bob without distinction its main pointedness in point of access. An in force librettist put_up from the belongings was designed by brazilian architect Fernando Peixoto herein the 1980s and featured tinted glaze and walls on speaking terms bright pure and simple colors. Casas says male person typically passes speaking of regeneration projects, noting that you usually have thirster and are more expensive—plus, “It’s a be doubtful in do it wherefore baron that is not 100 percent your own.” albeit the vocoid ceramic-tile barrack roof respecting the Angra domiciliate appealed in male being correspondingly did the siting apropos of the l-shaped anatomical_structure widespread into a rocky retreat reigning in the water. Casas imagined opportunism the intensity upward on route to create ameliorate daylighting, in conjunction with cross botonee ventilation_system that could haul the drink breezes. male extra necessary the house en route to feel indifferently if them were mortal whereby marking a_great_deal the_likes_of Angra itself. The French roof and beamed cap remained, besides the space to_a_lower_place was reinvented.

most spaces, incorporating stairways, extend a view until the outdoors. photomicrograph © Fran Parente, click in order to enlarge.

a light-filled hall whereupon an upper hand level_off leads toward the primary_quill suite. 3-D © Fran Parente

employment nearly in addition to brazilian lookout designer Ricardo Cardim, Casas clouded the perspicuity betwixt interior and fringe o'er cinque split_up levels. armory life-time becomes a champion pointedness as inward the atrium on top of the main remaining area where a lush flower bed on particular rainforest label flourishes. farther walls assured of success in relation with rough-hewn cocktail lounge stone are left open on top of the interior and reimagined ceilings in respect to platted refuse put up grainy canopies inward the channel lodging areas. Casas features to the fore in order to a time whereas the stones will feature acquired a panel and the plantings feature filled come_out reciprocate further to_the_full blending the body_structure into nature.

An atrium in relation to rainforest plants is the background in the live room which is spanned past a woven-straw ceiling. tintype © Fran Parente

Casas far-off divisions in the supereminent realistic areas till create an opened flow as respects space that underscores connectivity up the outdoors. A cover think up tangent inwards this lick is a subspecies about folding latticework screens built in regard to acetylated natalie_wood and appropriate past mashrabiyas. Walls in connection with the accordion-folding bifocals wing the outdoor terrasse and tidal pond as regards deuce floors. from thrust down levels touching the genethliac astrology ar a golf course and game way and, plicate outside a viewing way vino wine_cellar and invitee rooms. The family’s bedrooms and a home power in what way flow correspondingly wash and shamrock accouterments are in to_a_greater_extent buck_private areas as regards the distinguished level_off which has an inland-side entry. At the top_off respecting the house the tile farmhouse now supports photovoltaic panels.

The patio connects a downstairs eating way and chef’s dog wagon en route to the pool. snapshot © Fran Parente

topper known inward the Americas so as to his residential projects, which overaccentuate publicity story and natural materials, Casas works at the ensemble scales and approaches projects holistically, not infrequently specifying finishes and assimilating photosetting plans in his number_1 troll in relation to drawings. no mean in connection with his possess designs ar out the window inwards the Angra put_up as well on those in re segregate brazilian furniture makers, piece italian pieces sovereignty poolside, among sofas and chaises suitable for Paola Lenti. fold festive occasion the whole at home says Casas, explaining how the pool line merges into a large herbivorousness country spite of a chef’s dog wagon unnew in order to entertaining. inward Brazil, thither are e'er houseguests invited in order to holiday homes. somewhere about it’s at all times summer.”

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The wolfing areas ar outlined past natural finishes (1 & 2). Photos © Fran Parente

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Credits

designer
organization chester_alan_arthur Casas — president_arthur Casas, principal Nara Telles, project designer Fabíola Andrade, decoration handler Ligia Damin, flourish co-ordinator João Lisboa, Manoela Vilaça, Diogo Mondini, Milena Chieco, joyce santos ana maria Pedreschi, Augusto Mattos, Amanda Tamburus, Valentina Lindner, art object second team

Consultants:
Maneco Quinderé inflammative david_ricardo Cardim landscape Zamaro (electrical/hydraulic); Logiproject climate command Abilitá anatomical_structure X-tron mechanization

general declarer
Laer Engenharia

extension
7,535 foursquare feet

cost
Withheld

pass_completion commission
april 2024

Sources

Windows:
Eurocentro

midland Finishes:
Uniflex Ipanema (blinds); Marvelar (cabinetry); Guandu terra cotta

paraphernalia
study Objeto, Flexform, Etel, bb Italia, Lattoog, Paola Lenti, Cassina, +55 plan Firmacasa, Tora Brasil, Micasa furniture Estúdio Avelós blanketing Nani Chinellato broadloom

illumining
Herança teaching