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Güths House, Brasilia

13 Nov 2020

Architects: ARQBR

Location: Brasília, Brasil

photo © Joana França

Güths House in Brasilia

The Güths House residence is located in a suburban residential area near Brasilia, Brazil.

photo © Joana França

The clients’ wish was to have a three hundred square meter ground level house built, focused on common and leisure areas, initially for weekends and celebrations.

photo © Haruo Mikami

The layout is a result of organizing the bulding site’s occupation, as well as the positioning of the areas in the program, with two main volumes.

photos © Joana França

Private spaces were organized in the linear volume, while the wider-shaped one received all the common areas. Their positioning allows for the creation of a reserved backyard for leisure activities.

photo © Joana França

The façades’ composition reveal the level of privacy of each space: the concrete’s opacity corresponds to the more private areas; the partial transparency of the slatted timber panels reveals the common spaces, and the open leisure areas have void itself as its defining element.

photos © Joana França

Brief
A one-story weekend house for a family of four and potential guests, with approximately 300 square meters, prioritizing common and leisure spaces.

photos © Joana França

Key Challenges
The building site’s reduced area and shape were the main challenges to be overcome, once the brief required a one-story occupation, while preserving the largest possible green area.

photo © Haruo Mikami

Solutions
The optimized layout of the program into two volumes – one to house the common areas, and a more private one – allowed for the creation of a leisure backyard, which physically and visually integrate all spaces.

photo © Haruo Mikami

Key products
Structural walls in apparent cast-concrete; clear glass panels with aluminum frames; timber and steel sliding panels and timber ceiling.

photo © Joana França