MA Home sits on a sloping web site in Atibaia, Brazil, the place Estúdio Rossi Arquitetos shapes a everlasting home across the terrain, household routines, and a long-standing connection to the area. Designed in 2025, the residence balances an open, communal higher degree with a extra technical base beneath, utilizing two timber pavilions, a central courtyard, and a transparent circulation sequence to maintain the home each sensible and intently tied to the panorama.
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About MA Home
MA Home takes its type from a steep residential web site in Atibaia and from the routines of a household that already is aware of the area effectively. Designed as a everlasting residence, the home treats topography not as an impediment to beat however as the idea for its structure, circulation, and relationship to the panorama.
The unique want was for a single-story, open-plan dwelling. As a substitute, Estúdio Rossi Arquitetos resolves the slope with a two-level construction that preserves that sense of horizontal dwelling the place it issues most: on the higher plateau, the place the primary home areas sit in direct contact with the backyard.
A bolstered concrete base absorbs the extent adjustments and holds essentially the most technical components of this system, together with the storage, service areas, and a workshop. The decrease degree offers the home a grounded edge, enclosed by retaining partitions and planes clad in moledo stone, whose irregular floor follows the terrain and helps display the constructing from the road. Two separate staircases make clear motion from the beginning: one is social and tied to the backyard, the opposite extra discreet and service-oriented.
Above this platform, the home breaks into two pavilion-like volumes. One incorporates the social rooms; the opposite holds the non-public quarters. Their placement responds to the trapezoidal plot, with the social pavilion aligned to the entry street and the bed room wing rotated alongside the positioning’s diagonal. That shift creates diversified exterior areas between the buildings and offers the composition its strongest spatial second: a central courtyard that buildings arrival, motion, and views.
The pavilions share the identical timber system however differ in profile. Each are inbuilt glued laminated timber constituted of licensed eucalyptus, utilizing a prefabricated grid of columns and beams that helps massive openings and a transparent structural rhythm. The social pavilion has a pitched roof that lifts the ceiling and brings extra air and light-weight into the primary dwelling areas. The non-public pavilion is flatter and calmer in silhouette. A connecting roof airplane hyperlinks the 2 and marks the purpose the place circulation tightens earlier than opening once more towards the courtyard.
Contained in the social pavilion, lounge, eating space, and kitchen learn as one steady area. A long term of wooden millwork ties the room collectively, combining storage and show features whereas holding the plan visually ordered. On one facet, modular panels steadiness privateness and outlook towards the road. On the opposite, massive sliding glass panels retract to increase the room onto the veranda and towards the pool.
Materials selections keep near the constructing’s construction. Wooden cabinetry echoes the uncovered timber body, whereas stone seems on the base, alongside the top partitions of the pavilions, and throughout out of doors surfaces. São Tomé quartzite continues from the veranda to the backyard paths and pool encompass, strengthening the sense that the home is assembled as a sequence of related exterior and inside grounds relatively than a set of sealed rooms.
The non-public pavilion incorporates 5 en-suite bedrooms. Its entry hall works as a glazed gallery, bringing daylight deep into the plan and holding the backyard current throughout on a regular basis motion by way of the home. Within the bedrooms, uncovered timber, stone-clad headboard partitions, and wood flooring keep the identical restrained materials palette. Ground-to-ceiling home windows face the courtyard, whereas the bogs proceed using pure stone, together with travertine mosaic on the partitions.
Panorama design by Cate Poli extends the architectural logic throughout the positioning. Planting accompanies the ascent from the doorway and fills the areas between the pavilions, whereas the pool anchors the central courtyard as each leisure space and spatial hinge. On the rear, a sauna helps the household’s lively routines. All through, the undertaking stays exact about how it’s constructed and the way it’s used, turning a tough slope right into a home with clear construction, legible circulation, and fixed contact with the outside.
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