Cerrado House, Minas Gerais Building, Brazil Architcture Photos, Moeda Home, Property
Cerrado House in Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte Home, Contemporary Property in Moeda, Brazil design by Vazio S/A architects
12 Oct 2020
Design: Vazio S/A architects
Location: Moeda, Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
Cerrado House
Cerrado House Minas Gerais
The Cerrado is one of the country’s seven biomes and covers an area of 1.5 million km². It holds about a third of all Brazilian biodiversity, 5% of the world’s flora and fauna, and is home to the headwaters of the three largest hydrographic basins in the country (Amazon, São Francisco, and Paraná/ Paraguay).
It has a unique flora and stands out for its generously-spaced trees and low-slung brushwood, blending into a South-American variation on the African savannah and the European steppe. Given its ecological, geopolitical and cultural specificities, the Cerrado is considered the biome of national integration.
The soils of the Cerrado were once regarded as too acidic to farm. But since agronomists began applying industrial quantities of lime in the 1980s, these soils have been transformed. The Cerrado now produces 70% of Brazil’s agricultural output.
In recent years, the rate of ecological destruction of the Cerrado has been twice that of the Amazon, and while the majority of the Amazon rainforest survives, more than 60% of the Cerrado’s former 200 million hectares has disappeared under the plough, and most of that within the last two decades alone. It has been a black hole for conservation: only 2% of the ecosystem is protected. However, Brazilian agriculturalists and ministers still talk as if it had no conservation value at all.
Project Objectives
The Cerrado House was built at the foothills of the Sierra da Moeda, a mountain range in the state of Minas Gerais. The three-bedroom house has a rooftop pool and a wide staircase that leads to the rooftop terrace. The rooms are right under the swimming pool and have views of the sierra, the Cerrado and its twisted trees. Louvers on the northern and western faces protect against the inclement sun.
The play between function and form here is spontaneous and undogmatic: the ramps and stairs of the swimming pool are stamped irrepressibly onto the façades and shape the internal space. The employment of the programmatic source is made directly manifest: it is a generative strategy that explores the programme/form relationship as an absolute and inevitable correspondence.
Performance Description
Seeking the plasticity of basic architectural elements, the project also exalts this underestimated and threatened biome: the Cerrado. There is no landscape design: the house sits on natural terrain, whose immensity and vistas are best seen from the pool terrace.
Cerrado House in Minas Gerais – Building Information
Authors: Carlos M Teixeira, Leonardo Rodrigues (collab. arch.), Daila Araújo (collab. arch.)
Project: 2013
Construction: 2014-15
Total area: 320 sqm
Closed area: 142 sqm
Site: 3 ha.
Location: Moeda, Brazil
Architectural design: Vazio S/A
Structural design: RAD
Electrical design / Plumbing: Matheus Elias
Construction: Nova Engenharia
Main Suppliers:
Frames aluminum louvers: JJ Esquadrias
Marble and granite: Arq Pedras
Metals: Docol
Crockery: Celite
Fixtures: Templuz
Ceramics: Vitrale
Furniture: Vazio S/A
Pool: Sol e Ar
Cerrado House in Minas Gerais images / information received 121020 from Vazio S/A architects
4 Nov 2021
Cerrado House II, Moeda, Minas Gerais, Southeast Brazil
Design: Vazio S/A architects
photo : Leonardo Finotti
Cerrado House II in Moeda
Location: Moeda, Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
Architecture in Brazil
Brazilian Architecture Design – chronological list
Brazilian Houses – architectural selection below:
3V House, São Paulo
Design: studio mk27
photo : Fernando Guerra
3V House in São Paulo
Rio House, Rio de Janeiro
Design: Jacobsen Arquitetura
image : Omega Render
Rio House near Itanhangá Golf Course, Rio de Janeiro
House FY, Jaragua do Sul, Santa Catarina State
Design: PJV Arquitetura
photo : Larry Sestrem
House FY in Santa Catarina State, Brazil Home
Belo Horizonte Architecture – Selection
Roxy / Josefine Belo Horizonte
Design: Fred Mafra, architect
Lagoa Seca Mining Belo Horizonte
Design: Vazio S/A Arquitetura e Urbanismo
Favelas Buildings Belo Horizonte
Website: Belo Horizonte, Brasil
Brazilian Architecture – Selection
Bread Museum, Ilópolis, RS
Brasil Arquitetura
Bread Museum
Casa Panamá, São Paulo
Marcio Kogan
Casa Panamá
Top Towers – Housing
Königsberger Vannucchi Arquitetos Associados
Top Towers São Paulo
Brazilian Houses – Selection
Comments / photos for the Cerrado House in Minas Gerais design by Vazio S/A architects page welcome
Website: Vazio S/A.