The Pampulha lagoon in Belo Horizonte
is full of architectural significance
and to build on its margins means
to be close to the modernist legacy.
The building considers that recent history
but also expresses its modern urban spirit
with rural balconies and breezes.
The land slope dialogues with the building
and proposes fittings and suspensions.

The house contains two times:
The fluctuation of the front volume
shows the intimate side of the residence
pointing the future at the edge of water;
the covering of the open area in the back,
where parties burn the wood at the oven,
is close to the ground and timeless memories.
In a sequence of steps and floors
the house fits the site making a route
from the street to the roof, turned into observatory
transforming the tops in terraces
looking for the horizons seen at the topographic city
with it’s struggles and mutant culture
and its mountains with their fragile eternity. text by architect