Family Retreat Piracicaba House by Isay Weinfeld

Piracicaba House by Isay Weinfeld

This is retreat home designed as family gathering in Piracicaba, Brazil. The house distributed in three floors arranged in perpendicular axes allows the land displacement to be overcome naturally, and makes the garden accessible from any floor.

Family Retreat Home Piracicaba House by Isay Weinfeld

The lower ground, semi subterranean and positioned in the lowest level of the land, parallel to the contour lines, houses storage areas, the mechanical room and garage – that standing on grid pillars. Above, the ground floor forms an L-shaped plan with the living and dining space in one wing and the kitchen and services in the other. The ground floor has a curtain wall of glazing in front of the living and dining room to afford views of a swimming pool, while the adjacent wing is clad in vertical concrete slabs.

Large Wooden Deck Piracicaba House by Isay Weinfeld

The upper floor, a volume that stretches perpendicularly to the contour of the land and that, at one end, cantilevers towards the street, and at the other is planted on the higher section of the land, houses the bedrooms and the den – the latter opening onto a large wooden deck, build on the ceiling slab over the lounge/dining room.