ARL Residence is a São Paulo home that recasts a household property for a pair whose kids have moved out and whose routine consists of frequent journey. The 2025 challenge by Suite Arquitetos, designed by Dado Castello Branco, replaces the unique residence with a extra compact, vertically organized house that retains its dwelling areas carefully linked to the backyard. Throughout its inside and exterior views, the home holds a measured steadiness between pale surfaces, heat wooden, uncovered concrete, and dense planting.
About ARL Residence
ARL Residence replaces the couple’s authentic house on a 500 m2 (5,382 sq ft) lot in São Paulo, Brazil. After their kids transfer out, the house owners begin once more with a home for a lighter, extra sensible routine formed by frequent journey. Suite Arquitetos, with Dado Castello Branco credited as architect, stacks this system throughout three ranges, preserving the vary of areas described within the temporary with out increasing throughout the compact web site.
That vertical association doesn’t isolate the home from its environment. On the intermediate stage, the dwelling space faces the backyard, and giant glass panels carry the view immediately into the rooms. Inside, pale surfaces set a steady background for built-in shelving, timber furnishings, and dense planting, whereas a pool and paved out of doors space prolong the sequence past the glass.
Three Ranges on a Compact Lot
The residence retains an entire program on constrained terrain by way of vertical group. The decrease stage accommodates the storage, health club, and the proprietor’s private workshop. The intermediate flooring concentrates the dwelling space and the youngsters’s suites, whereas the highest flooring homes the couple’s suite and residential workplace. The association distinguishes the couple’s extra personal rooms from the communal areas and the sensible amenities beneath, utilizing the compact web site with out lowering the temporary to a single airplane.
Dwelling Areas Open to the Backyard
On the intermediate stage, broad glazing locations the sitting and eating areas beside a dense inexperienced backdrop. A wall of open shelving frames the tv and a low fire, giving the lengthy room a built-in architectural factor relatively than a set of freestanding storage items. Sheer curtains soften the glass edge with out blocking the view, and the furnishings is organized to protect sightlines towards the planting. Considered throughout the room, the seating, eating desk, terrace, and pool learn as components of 1 linked sequence.
A Restrained Palette, Warmed by Wooden
Concrete and different mild finishes set up a pale discipline for hotter cabinetry and furnishings. On the built-in wall, a darkish timber base grounds the shelving, whereas the principle seating stays mild. Brown chairs and a spherical eating desk add a deeper observe to the eating space, and a vivid art work provides the strongest shade accent. Elsewhere, navy upholstery and a framed {photograph} of foliage shift the environment towards a deeper register. These modifications hold the interiors various with out interrupting their visible continuity.
A Inexperienced Edge Across the Home
Gilberto Elkis’s landscaping extends the challenge’s reference to nature past the glazed dwelling stage. The facade carries a lush vertical backyard, whereas dense planting frames the terrace and pool within the exterior views. Uncovered concrete slabs challenge over the out of doors areas and sit above broad openings, giving the home a layered profile. The higher quantity makes use of darkish vertical panels, contrasting with lighter concrete bands and the inexperienced setting. The stacked construction stays legible towards the planting.
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