Aroeira is a farm, where space is slow. Aroeira is a nest, there's coffee, there's time. Aroeira is a place, it lasts a lifetime and a hundred years more.
Project name
Aroeira House
Architecture firm
Tetro Arquitetura
Location
Esmeraldas, Brazil
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes, Igor Macedo
Visualization
Igor Macedo
Typology
Residential › House
The project transforms an old bar in Vila Madalena, in São Paulo, into the headquarters of Mãe Terra, a food company. The objective was to bring together the administrative, innovation and product development areas, as well as spaces for experimenting with food and experiencing the company's work philosophy.
Project name
Mãe Terra Company (Mother Earth Company)
Architecture firm
Memola Estudio & Vitor Penha
Location
Rua Harmonia, 271, Vila Madalena, São Paulo, Brazil
Design team
Veronica Molina, Vitor Penha, Debora Brasil, Bianca Sinisgalli, Luisa Oliveira
Collaborators
Aldi Flosi (Production)
Interior design
Memola Estudio & Vitor Penha
Landscape
Um Design Studio
Lighting
Memola Estudio & Vitor Penha
Construction
Abduch Construtora
Material
Concrete, Glass, Steel
Typology
Commercial › Office Building, Headquarters
Concise, cohesive and coherent: these are the adjectives that synthesize the essence of Casa Prática. At the end of a dead-end street, surrounded by mountains and a green area, the building, located in Belo Horizonte, has a simplifying dynamic, both in terms of materiality and use.
Project name
Casa Prática
Architecture firm
Estúdio Zargos
Location
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Photography
Jomar Bragança
Principal architect
Zargos Rodrigues
Design team
Zargos Rodrigues, Frederico Rodrigues, Rodrigo Pereira, Ika Okamoto e Daniele Castro
Civil engineer
Laso Engenharia
Structural engineer
ESTcon Projetos de engenharia
Environmental & MEP
Encad Projetos
Landscape
Rodrigo Pereira
Construction
Laso Engenharia
Material
Concrete, glass, wood, stone
Typology
Residential › House
The Café House is located in a Cerrado region, in the interior of the state of Minas Gerais, which is a place of rural landscape, where the image of red earth and twisted tree trunks predominates. From where, as in all Minas Gerais territory, coffee is an invitation to a long conversation.
Project name
Café House (Casa Café)
Architecture firm
Tetro Arquitetura
Location
Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Principal architect
Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes, Igor Macedo
Collaborators
Bianca de Castro Carvalho, Bruno Bontempo, Déborah Martins, Diana Oliveira, Giovanna De Giacomo, Gregório Fiorotti, Luisa Lage
Interior design
Sofa and Dining Table: Tuoli Móveis; Curtains: Laiza Decorações
Structural engineer
Structural concrete design: MV Estruturas
Environmental & MEP
Design of electrical installations and hydraulic installations: Somar Engenharia
Landscape
Nativa Paisagismo
Construction
Somar Engenharia
Material
Steel doors: MA Inoxidáveis; Glasses: Cristal Vidros; Stones: Directa Pedras
Typology
Residential › House
The architect participated in Fuorisalone for the second time, highlighting the richness of Brazilian natural rocks and their different applications. The architect and designer, Vivian Coser, exhibits her installation “Stone Pavilion '' at Fuorisalone, the most important event of the year in the world of design.
Photography
Studio Sette 7, Romulo Fialdini
Located in a small gated community on the outskirts of São Paulo, the brazilian office Biselli Katchborian Arquitetos Associados project for TRD House featured glass elements and a concrete structure, as well as a piece of helical staircase, connecting the living environment to the walkway that unites the accommodation volumes of the program.
Architecture firm
Biselli Katchborian Arquitetos Associados
Location
São Paulo, Brazil
Principal architect
Mario Biselli, Artur Katchborian
Design team
Cassia Lopes Moral (Coordinator) e Paulo Roberto dos Santos, Cássio Oba Osanai, Ana Carolina Ferreira Mendes, Daniela Santiago, Débora Rodrigues Pinheiro, Maria Fernanda Vita, Marcelo Checchia
Collaborators
Foundation: Portela Alarcon
Structural engineer
Edatec
Environmental & MEP
Electric and Hidraulic Engineering: Interplanus. Air Conditioning: Newset
Lighting
Godoy Luminotécnica - René Adriani Jr.
Construction
Lock Engenharia
Material
Concrete, Wood, Steel, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
Located in the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte (Brazil), “O Ateliê de Cerâmica” is a design studio focused on the production of ceramic objects and the preservation of traditional craftsman’s methods. Founded in 2002, it went through refurbishment and expansion in 2014 and a later intervention in 2019.
Project name
O Ateliê de Cerâmica
Architecture firm
Mobio Arquitetura
Location
Contagem, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Photography
Mobio Arquitetura
Principal architect
Gabriel Castro, Luiza Soares
Collaborators
Daniel Romeiro, Flávia Soares
Landscape
Flavia Soares, Luiza Soares, Daniel Romeiro
Client
O Ateliê de Cerâmica
Typology
Commercial › Office, Store
The Matutu House, It's the last house on the last street, It has “ma”, Japanese space-time, Interval, Way to turn off the city, And turn on the woods.
Project name
Matutu House
Architecture firm
Tetro Arquitetura
Location
Brumadinho, Brazil
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes, Igor Macedo
Design team
Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes, Igor Macedo
Visualization
Igor Macedo
Typology
Residential › House
