Brazilian architectural studio Nitsche Arquitetos Associados, São Paolo, has created a frame for admiring the rare beauty of the landscape in its plan for a home in São Francisco Xavier, Espírito Santo. The challenge of this project is to invent a new and unique space for human being, in an isolated location with impressive and exuberant nature and remarkable geography. The region is like a “sea of mountains” with deep valleys, flowing rivers and waterfalls. Also the sky has a strong presence in the landscape composing with the rest of the nature a classic view.
The site is a small mountain covered with luxuriant wild vegetation overlooking the river at the bottom of the valley and surrounded by tall Eucalyptus trees on the slopes of what looks like a “sea of mountains”. Brazil’s Espírito Santo region is famous for the granite and coffee that come out of its mountains. The home is set on a corner of the hill, and consists of a main volume with two secondary volumes at right angles to it containing accessory and utility areas such as the guesthouse and laundry room, forming an open-air courtyard sheltered on three sides.
