15 Stunning Homes in Brazil Designed by Leading Architects

Location: Botucatu, SP – Brazil
Type of Construction: Residential
Site Area: 1086, 20m
Building Area: 522, 22m
Project Completion: 2014
Architect Studio: FGMF (Forte, Gimenes e Marcondes Ferraz Arquitetos)

The residence seeks to investigate the relationships between internal and external through a series of intermediate spaces. These spaces ask questions about where the balconies, leisure area and traditional spaces such as living room or home theater begin, as well as their limits.

Location: Itatiba – SP, Brasil
Type of Construction: Residential
Site Area: 1.810m²
Building Area: 400m²
Project Completion: 2017
Architect Studio: FGMF Arquitetos (Forte, Gimenes e Marcondes Ferraz Arquitetos)

The awarded architecture firm FGMF Architects, based in Sao Paulo, signs the design of the Neblina House. This house consists in a composition of volumes that was projected with the sun orientation and also with the gorgeous view of Itatiba’s Valley, in the countryside of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Location: São Paulo, SP – Brazil
Type of Construction: Residential
Site Area: 885,30m²
Building Area: 358,51 m²
Project Completion: 2015
Architect Studio: FGMF Arquitetos (Forte, Gimenes e Marcondes Ferraz Arquitetos)

Design a house for a young family was the project’s main point. The steep-sloped site had a unique view to one of São Paulo’s main arterial roads. To use said site to our advantage in the creation of the house’s spaces, the attention to the circulation flows and the leisure area seemed to us like some of the most important questions to be addressed from the very beginning.

Location: Sao Jose dos Campos, SP – Brazil
Type of Construction: Residential
Site Area: 68 mil m
Building Area: 3.123 m
Project Completion: 2008
Architect Studio: FGMF Arquitetos (Forte, Gimenes e Marcondes Ferraz Arquitetos)

In an area of 53.24 hectares, only 65,000 square meters are not covered by the lush native intact forest that is permanently protected. In this area of accidented topography, where large stones are surrounded by Araucaria trees, a small valley was chosen, protected from the winds and close to the forest.

Architect: Flavio Castro Architects
Location: Planalto Paulista, São Paulo – Brazil
Year: 2012
Project, construction, garden design, lighting and interior design.: arq Flavio Castro
Design Team: Claudia Reis
Land area: 800 m²
Built area: 600 m²
Photographer: Nelson Kon

The way of appropriation of the 800 square meters available for the establishment of the house (20x40m) is quite clear. Two large perpendiculars volumes mark the territory and categorize the uses and functions of other areas of the land.

Architecture Design (Company/Studio Name): Flavio Castro Architects
Project Architect(s) (Architect Name): Flavio Castro
Location: Guarujá, Sao Paulo – SP –Brazil
Area (Building size): 440m2
Completion:
Structure: concrete
Slabs: concrete
Walls: masonry
Closings: aluminum, wood and glass
Photographer: Flavio Castro

No frontiers between the connected environments grouped by function are the major feature of the Pernambuco house. The architect drew 4 virtual axes perpendicular to the street to organize the distribution of internal and external environments. 

Architecture Design (Company/Studio Name): Flavio Castro Architects
Project Architect(s) (Architect Name): Flavio Castro
Location: Guarujá, Sao Paulo – SP –Brazil
Area(Building size): 340m2
Completion:
Structure: concrete
Slabs: concrete
Walls: masonry
Closings: aluminum, wood and glass
Photographer: Marcelo Scandaroli

The house is composed by 6 squares grouped in pairs. Within this compositional rule, two subtractions were made at opposite sides to form two venues: the garage in the front and the social area behind. The different relationships that they establish with their neighbors (other squares) were determinate by the unevenness of the floor, transparency and accessibility. In the sketch below is possible comprehend this.

Location: Salvador, Brazil
Project: February 2007
Completion: April 2009
Site area: 2.165 sqm
Built area: 690 sqm
Essential credits:
Architecture: Studio mk27
Architect: Marcio Kogan
Co-architect: Samanta Cafardo, Suzana glogowski
Interior Design: Diana Radomysler
Project team: Henrique Bustamante, Mariana Simas, Oswaldo Pessano

The Bahia House is an ecological house. But, not in the technological sense, not in the contemporary sense of the word “sustainability”, it does not have the very latest state-of-the-art gadgets that make it possible to optimize electric expenditure.  The organization of the floor plan and the use of materials come close to those of traditional architecture.

Location: Paraty, Brazil
Project: August 2006
Completion: May 2009
Site area: 50.000 sqm
Built area: 840 sqm
Essential credits:
Architecture: Studio mk27
Architect: Marcio Kogan
Co-architect: Suzana Glogowski
Interiors: Diana Radomysler
Project team: Carolina Castroviejo, Lair Reis, Mariana Simas

There is a legend which says that the region of the colonial city of Paraty and Angra dos Reis (between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) has 365 islands, one for each day of the year. Two boxes of reinforced concrete, rest fixed connected on the mountainside of one of these islands; two modern prisms between the large colossal stones of the Brazilian coast.

Location: Paraty, Brazil
Project: October 2001
Conclusion: November 2003
Site area: 990 sqm
Built area: 405 sqm
Essential Credits:
Architecture: Studio mk27
Architect: Marcio Kogan
Co-architects: Cassia Cavani, Diana Radomysler
Interiors: Diana Radomysler
Project team: Oswaldo Pessano, Samanta Cafardo

The house is located in the Laranjeiras Condominium situated 15 Km from the historic city of Paraty/RJ. The basic concept of the project is “double face” architecture, modern on the outside and conventional inside.

Location: Brasília. df. Brazil
Project: March 2003
Conclusion: January 2007
Site plan area: 797 sqm
Built area: 270 sqm
Essential credits:
Architecture: Studio mk27
Architect: Marcio Kogan
Co-architect: Suzana glogowski
Interiors: Diana Radomysler
Project team: Carolina Castroviejo, Mariana Simas, Oswaldo Pessano

The site of the Osler House lies at the edge of Brasilia’s pilot plan, at the tip of one of Paranoá Lake estuaries. The house is a poetic commentary on modern architecture, above all on Brazilian modernism, starting from a contemporary re-reading of the building materials and techniques. 

Architects: Obra arquitetos
Area: 650 m²
Year: 2017
Photographs: Nelson Kon
Manufacturers: Indusparquet, Excellent, Placas TS
Structure: Solofund Engenharia
MEP: Dma Engenharia
Automation: Steluti Engenharia
Lighting: Marcos Castilha Arquitetura de Iluminação
Landscape Design: Forma & Verde
Photovoltaic Panels: Proengenharia
Authors: Thiago Natal Duarte, João Paulo Daolio
City: São José dos Campos
Country: Brazil

The main request of the couple was to make a house with a roof and great offer of external area. We proposed a large sloping roof in metal structure and L-shaped installation, where the yard turned into a large lawn fully integrated with the internal space.

Architects: Obra Arquitetos
Area: 1187 m²
Year: 2015
Photographs: Nelson Kon
Manufacturers: Arteal, proassp
Sustainability: Fluxus
Metal Structure: Franklin Engenharia
Furniture: Moble Design
Landscaping: Panorama Pasagismo, Catê Poli Paisagismo
Structure And Foundations: Solofund Engenharia
Architects In Charge: João Paulo Daolio, Thiago Natal Duarte
Collaborator: Diogo Cavallari

Situated on a site with a large number of native trees to be preserved and average slope of 30%, the implementation of the project suggests an intense dialogue with the existing topography and vegetation.

Architects: Obra Arquitetos
Area: 4596 ft²
Year: 2021
Photographs: Nelson Kon
Manufacturers: Cortesia Concreto, Excellent Esquadrias, Farragem Fcil, Minerao Pratense, Power Lume, Solidus Marmoraria
Lead Architect: João Paulo Daolio
Collaborators: Thiago Natal Duarte, Bruna Akamine, Kawani Nishimura, Rafael Giacomo Gambale

The house’s design is oriented in plans which follow the terrains slope and organize the house’s spaces. Its environments are distributed around a patio, allowing people to meet and socialize freely.

Architects: 24 7 Arquitetura
Area: 285 m²
Year: 2021
Photographs: Adriano Pacelli
Manufacturers: AutoDesk, Armani, Led Luz, Lovato, MAV do Brasil, Maximmus Marmoraria, Nacional Telha, Pedras Capricórnio, Power Soll, Tristão Serraleria, União Técnica
Lead Architect: Giuliano Pelaio, Gustavo Tenca
Co Authors: Nicolas Meireles, Christian D’Abruzzo

Standing out on top of a hill, the Itatiba House was designed in such a way as to make the most of the existing topography, keeping the building at a high level in order to enjoy the view of the surroundings. The implantation of the house happens in an oblique way in relation to the street, making it skewed on the lot.