Living in Remote Landscapes

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Architects: MAPA

Location: Catuçaba, São Luís do Paraitinga - SP, Brazil

Architect In Charge: Luciano Andrades, Matías Carballal, Rochelle Castro, Andrés Gobba, Mauricio López, Silvio Machado

Area: 42.0 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Leonardo Finotti , Fazenda Catuçaba | E. Rengade

Team: Pablo Courreges, Diego Morera, Emiliano Lago, Mauricio Müller, Camilla Pereira

Construction: CROSSLAM / CG Sistemas

Hydraulic Project: Júlio César Troleis

Electrical Project: Ari Martins Colares

© Fazenda Catuçaba | E. Rengade
From the architect. Living in Remote LandscapesMINIMOD CATUÇABA is a primitive retreat with a contemporary reinterpretation, which more than an object aims to become an every-remote-landscape experience.

© Leonardo Finotti

MINIMOD presents an alternative to traditional construction: based on prefab plug&play logics, it incorporates the benefits that a newly-born industry has to offer. Quiet but not shy, its unique-in-Brazil CLT Wood-Technology combines industrialized products`efficiency and new technologies` sustainability with the sensitivity of the natural material par excellence. 

© Leonardo Finotti

MINIMOD exploration started in 2009 and still goes on. It`s very first pro...