The residence is located in one of the first urban allotment of the district of Itaici, in the city of Indaiatuba, interior of São Paulo: the Valley of Laranjeiras. Formed and constituted by a Portuguese?s community, in the early 1980s, it carries in its streets the names of localities and cities of that country.

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Architects: idsp arquitetos

Location: Vale das Laranjeiras, Brazil

Authors: Raul Penteado Neto, Renata Boccia

Area: 733.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Manuel Sá

Engineer: Omicro Engenharia

Landscape: Pé de Café Paisagismo

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Text description provided by the architects. The residence is located in one of the first urban allotment of the district of Itaici, in the city of Indaiatuba, interior of São Paulo: the Valley of Laranjeiras. Formed and constituted by a Portuguese?s community, in the early 1980s, it carries in its streets the names of localities and cities of that country.
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The site, with 3.000m², has a gentle slope towards the two lakes that exists in the bottom of the valley. The project sought to implement the building providing relationships with some neighbors, maintaining a pre-existing insertion, height and logic, privileging users' privacy and creating paths and surprises from access to free and complete contemplation of the landscape. The spaces were distributed according to the best s...