Building: JPGN House
Architect: MGS – Macedo, Gomes & Sobreira
Location: Brasilia, Brazil
Why We Liked This:
The owner of this house has spent his whole life in Brasilia, seeing it grow from Modernist experiment to booming metropolis. His experiences and kinship with the city informed the form of the house, which wears its influences on its, er, sleeve. Accordingly, the structure is lifted on pilotis that run up the house’s shifting volumes. The rectilinear floorplates cantilever gesturally in all directions, allowing “the house to lean towards the landscape (and city).” Inside and out, the design is paved with a rich material palette, with stone parapet walls and flush marble window details adding texture and sheen to the proverbial plaster white. See more of this project in the Architizer database here.
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