Greetings from Brazil! 🙂
Brazilian architecture firm Vilela Florez designed Casa Bambu (Bamboo House), a breezy, contemporary home in northeast Brazil that takes its
name from its striking use of bamboo for herringbone-patterned exterior paneling. Covering an area of nearly 2,000 square feet, this holiday home was built on a limited budget of 80,000 euros (approximately $93,140 USD) with a tight design and construction deadline of ten months for a couple who spends most of the year on a sailboat traveling through the Mediterranean Sea. The house takes cues from the clients’ travels with its Mediterranean-inspired blue hues and Portuguese mosaic stone floors found in the outdoor living areas.
Located near a small village in the northeast of Brazil by Pipa Beach, this private house includes, besides the gran outside living area, laundry, kitchen, and three rooms where their sons could stay with their family. Given the limited time granted for design and construction, a simple volume with the rooms is proposed and connected by bridges to an outdoor living area, paved in stone as the traditional Portuguese sidewalks. This living area is protected laterally by two local- stone walls and shaded by a wooden roof. The volume of the bedrooms is built in structural masonry of concrete blocks, creating vertical ribs where bamboo sticks panels, arranged as fishbone, are placed in between. The bamboo panels shade the façade, helping the thermal behavior of the building.
The house is oriented towards the prevailing winds which crosses the pool water and the vegetation of the gardens to penetrate the bedrooms, cooling the constant breeze and refreshing the interior from the strong tropical heat. Besides the natural color pallet, spanning from wood, to bamboo and natural stone, the bedroom volume is painted in Mediterranean blue, a color so familiar to the clients from their many boat trips.
We at The Casa Club have seen this house making the rounds around the internet being branded as a shipping container home but we haven’t found any evidence to corroborate this claim. In fact, on the architect’s website, nothing is mentioned about using a container. But we do enjoy the boxy look of this family’s non-traditional beach home!
So what do you think? Would you live here? 🙂
Information Source: Inhabitat, Vilela Florez
Photo Source: Vilela Florez
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