Baroneza Home is a 2024 residence in Bragança Paulista, Brazil, by Studio Arthur Casas. Set on a sloping web site in Quinta da Baroneza, the home turns to the panorama and shifts its social stage to the higher ground. That transfer opens the plan to broad views, brings in gentle, and provides the household a transparent connection between indoor rooms and the wooded setting.
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About Baroneza Home
With a woodland backdrop and the horizon forward, Baroneza Home settles right into a cautious studying of the sloping terrain. The residence stands within the Quinta da Baroneza condominium within the countryside of São Paulo, the place it turns the same old logic of occupation the other way up to serve a household that values time collectively.
The social stage sits on the higher ground, on the highest level of the location. From there, the plan opens repeatedly to the panorama and takes full benefit of the twin view, whereas the decrease stage stays extra sheltered and near the bottom.
Two massive volumes are separated by a central reflecting pool. Sliding glass panels run throughout the interiors, encouraging air motion, cross air flow, and pure cooling with out interrupting the connection between rooms and the outside.
Above this built-in ground, a glulam roof stretches into two sloping planes. The shape remembers open wings, and it’s used right here to attract in pure gentle whereas offering shade and thermal management. For the workplace, the pitched profile additionally demanded shut technical work, from alignment and wooden tone to the precision of meeting.
The fabric palette shifts because the volumes overlap. The higher physique is uncovered concrete, topped by the timber roof, whereas the decrease quantity is partly embedded within the terrain and works in a quieter mixture of concrete and wooden. Pure stone flooring continues from the inside to the outside and meets the pool, which can be clad in stone.
On the decrease stage, glass bricks carry zenithal gentle into the stair corridor that results in the suites. These rooms are organized round a backyard protected by a retaining slope, which separates the home from the road and public sidewalk and provides the interiors privateness with out chopping them off from greenery.
Inside, the lounge is organized to protect motion and clear visible axes. Embaúba and Brasiliana sofas, PL61 armchairs, and Arthur Casas facet tables form the setting, whereas jacarandá items and artworks add texture and distinction.
The connoisseur space, dwelling theater, recreation room, and outside areas every carry that very same self-discipline into completely different settings. Furnishings by Arthur Casas, Studio Objeto, Jorge Zalszupin, Michel Arnoult, Etel, Sérgio Rodrigues, and others helps rooms that shift from collective use to extra intimate moments with out dropping readability.
Baroneza Home ties structure, construction, and panorama right into a single sequence. By inverting this system, counting on passive consolation methods, and making the timber roof a central aspect, the residence gives a exact, direct way of life near the location.
Images courtesy of Studio Arthur Casas
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