This project aimed to create a house to spend a few days, or to spend the night after gathering family and friends in a spacious place that allows for these meetings. Our clients were a couple who wanted to make a second home in the middle of the vast pasture of a cattle farm. The clients wanted a simple tent, which would house a kitchen, bedroom, bathrooms and sauna, as well as a swimming pool.

In that pasture landscape, isolated patches of dense vegetation testified to the past of the place, which not so long ago was a forest. The proposed tent embraces and protects a new patch of forest created in memory of the one that no longer exists. This courtyard, with traces of a milder microclimate than the surrounding pasture, can support a variety of species, such as native plants as well as wild animals.

All spaces are organized around this courtyard, from where the pool water also emanates. Tall trees will eventually cross the roof, which was open in the central part, as well as in the pool quadrant, creating a diagonal that emphasizes the presence of water and its relationship to the forest fragment in the courtyard. The roof structure is made of glulam trusses supported at the four corners of the patio on concrete pillars. From a distance, the construction hides its complexity and can be seen like any other rural construction in the surrounding area.

Design:

Fernando Delgado, Isabela Canêdo, Renan Vargas

Location:

Fazenda Liberdade, Muriaé-MG, Brazil

Project start:

2022

Floor area:

131m²

Lot area:

527m²

Status:

Unbuilt project