The Studio MEMM project for the Tree House emerged as a playful idea. In a moment of family expansion, with new grandchildren and nephews, the client understood that the ludic universe of the tree house could add to the experience of staying in Monte Verde, Minas Gerais
Architecture firm
Studio MEMM
Location
Monte Verde, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Principal architect
Marcelo Macedo
Design team
Studio MEMM – Marcelo Macedo
Collaborators
Drielly Nunes, CLT Brise soleil: Crosslam
Interior design
Drielly Nunes
Built area
18 m² (main volume: 12 m²; smaller volume: 6 m²)
Site area
Over 5 hectares
Civil engineer
João Trombada Construções
Lighting
Futura Iluminação
Supervision
Marcelo Macedo
Tools used
SketchUp, Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, AutoCAD
Construction
Glued Laminated Wood / CLT - Crosslam Brasil
Material
Floor, ceiling and Columns and beams finishing: garapeira wood. Structure: concrete. Alluminum glazed facades. Brise soleil: CLT
Typology
Residential, House
Studio Guilherme Torres, an architecture firm named after its founder and creative director, carries a fundamental premise in its works: the use of high-performance construction techniques, yield and minimization or extinction of environmental impact. This intrinsic feature is present since his first works in the early 00's, where the concepts of e...
Architecture firm
Studio Guilherme Torres
Location
Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Photography
Denilson Machado — MCA Estúdio
Principal architect
Guilherme Torres
Design team
Felipe Castilho, Cyro Guimarães, Rafael Miliari, Fernando Lima
Interior design
Guilherme Torres
Civil engineer
Yopanan C. P. Rebello
Structural engineer
Grau Engenharia
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp Pro, Adobe Photoshop
Construction
Construtora Monreal
Material
Steel frame structure, alveolar timber and concrete slabs, Viroc (façade), perforated metal plates (circulation), hijau stone (swimming pool coating), conctrete plates (wall coating)
Typology
Residential › Single Family Residence
With the desire to integrate living room and kitchen, a suite with plenty of useful space and a balcony with barbecue to enjoy relaxing moments, the office Espacial Arquitetos, led by architects Larissa Teixeira and Reginaldo Machado, sought inspiration in New York lofts and brought a lot of urban design, bringing the city into the 180m² apartment...
Project name
Apartamento Cônego
Architecture firm
Espacial Arquitetos
Location
Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil
Design team
Larissa Teixeira, Reginaldo Machado
Interior design
Espacial Arquitetos
Environmental & MEP engineering
Structural engineer
Eduardo Duprat
Lighting
Espacial Arquitetos
Material
Portobello, Eliane, Dalle Piage, Friso box
Typology
Residential › Apartment
A linear 485 m² penthouse in Leblon, Rio de Janeiro. An architecture and decoration project signed by Magarão + Lindenberg Arquitetura.
Project name
DC Penthouse
Architecture firm
Magarão + Lindenberg Arquitetura
Location
Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Photography
Juliano Colodeti / MCA Estudio
Principal architect
Mauricio Magarão
Design team
Alice Lindenberg, Maria Pia L. Jorge
Collaborators
Jefferson Stunner
Interior design
Magarão + Lindenberg Arquitetura
Environmental & MEP engineering
Civil engineer
Stewart Engenharia
Structural engineer
Abilitá Engenharia
Landscape
Daniela Infante
Lighting
Maneco Quinderé & Associados
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass
Typology
Residential › Apartment
The Ó House is about centrality. To preserve the nature that exists there in the middle; then the house embraces and protects.
Architecture firm
Tetro Arquitetura
Location
Nova Lima, Brazil
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes, Igor Macedo
Visualization
Igor Macedo
Typology
Residential › House
In an area of over 5,000 sqm, where an abandoned shopping center used to be, we created the new Olist office. Our starting point was to look at the problem:
A very segmented floor plan due to the building's structure of two existing towers. To minimize this, we created volumes that embrace these structures and house all the private offices and me...
Project name
Olist Headquarter
Architecture firm
Arquea Arquitetos
Location
Curitiba, Brazil
Photography
Eduardo Macarios
Principal architect
Bernardo Richter, Fernando Caldeira de Lacerda and Pedro Amin Tavares, Helena Engelhardt, Prisicla Vicentim
Design team
Bernardo Richter, Fernando Caldeira de Lacerda and Pedro Amin Tavares, Helena Engelhardt, Prisicla Vicentim
Typology
Commercial › Office Building
The Biela house has a gallery of really cool cars as an art exhibit. The display is vertical as a Hot Wheels collector would in childhood, but on a real scale.
Architecture firm
Tetro Arquitetura
Location
Nova Lima, Brazil
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes, Igor Macedo
Visualization
Igor Macedo, Matheus Rosendo
Typology
Residential › House
Guilherme Torres accompanied the young couple from the purchase of the lot - a 463 m² house, built in the 80s at the heart of a traditional neighbourhood of São Paulo - to the final steps in the remodelling of the house. The desire of the future inhabitants of the house was to adapt the architecture of the house to their lifestyle, bearing in mind...
Project name
Parallel House
Architecture firm
Studio Guilherme Torres
Location
São Paulo, Brazil
Photography
Denilson Machado – MCA Estúdio
Principal architect
Guilherme Torres
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
