브라질 디자이너 Fernando Campana와 Humberto Campana는 상파울로에종려 섬유로 뒤덮혀 마치 털로 가득한 느낌을 주는 외관의 집을 한 채 지었다. 나무로 울창한 동네에 4층짜리 이 집은 열대의 뜨거운 열을 막아주기 위해 피아사바 야자에서 얻은 섬유로 지어진 이 집을 지은 Fernando Campana는 '집을 장악한 채소'라는 컨셉으로 집을 설명하고 있다. 즉 채소처럼 집의 겉모습에서부터 내부에 이르기까지 무언가를 창의적으로 만들어내고 싶었다는 게 그 취지다. 집 자체가 이미 깨끗했기에, 집과 외벽에 강하면서도 오가닉한 정서를 불어일으킬 성분들을 만들어내고자 했다고 한다.
Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana have built a house in São Paulo that is covered in palm fibre to give it a hairy exterior.
Located in the city's leafy Jardim Paulista neighbourhood, the four-storey house takes its cues from Brazil's indigenous housing, where fibres from the piassava palm are used to create a shield against the tropical heat.
The Campana brothers – who are the latest designers to move into architecture – applied this same material to the house's north-facing facade to protect it from the intense summer sun.
While the design duo have previously used the material to create a lounge for HSBC during Design Miami and the scenography for the São Paulo Fashion Week, this is the first major architectural project they have applied it to.
The Campanas designed the house for clients Stefano Zunino and Solange Ricoy, with whom they have a long-standing relationship. They designed the lobby of Zunino's office, and have given talks at Ricoy's branding agency.
Fernando Campana described the concept for the couple's home as "a vegetable that invades the house".
Inside, it is organised around a bookcase covered in pieces of overlapping leather, which creates a patchwork texture reminiscent of the brothers' fish skin-covered cabinet. This bookcase extends all the way up to the roof.
Architect: Estudio Campana (Fernando and Humberto Campana)
Project team: Lelia Arruda, Diogo Matsui
Clients: Solange Ricoy, Stefano Zunino
Contractor: Lock engenharia
Photography is by Leonardo Finotti.
"We wanted to create something like a vegetable that goes from outside of the house to the inside," said Fernando Campana.
"The house is very clean, so we created those elements to bring strong, organic emotion into the house and the facade."
"The house turns around the library. It's the signature piece," added Stefano Zunino. "It's like a living animal living inside the house."
The ground floor of this house is partially sunken, creating a giant garage where the couple store their vintage Alfa Romero car, Vespa scooter and bicycles. Their primary living space is set on the storey above.
The lounge centres around a huge mirror resembling a cloud. The room also features a reclaimed hardwood floor, while the kitchen floor is covered in glossy orange tiles.
The kitchen opens out onto a terrace, which is framed by a green-painted wall covered in climbing fig and cactus plants.
A row of tall cacti are also used to create a screen at front of the house, while at the rear of the garden, orange wire benches offer places to sit among the mango, pitanga and erythrina coral trees.
Bedrooms for the couple's two sons are set alongside a guest room and red-tiled bathroom on the second floor, while the master suite occupies the uppermost level.
Here, a transparent roof and private terrace help to make the most of natural light, and a suspended fire place offers warmth during winter months.
from dezeen