The Morumbi Residence by Drucker Arquitetura
Drucker Arquitetura have designed the Morumbi Residence in São Paulo, Brazil.
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Description of the Morumbi Residence by Drucker Arquitetura:
The project started when Monica Drucker found a 2,500m² site at the top of Morumbi hills, in São Paulo, it was the ideal spot for her client’s residence. The area harmonized the view to the urban skyline with a tree-lines street, addition to excellent privacy conditions assured by the 1,50m unevenness relative to the street.
In the project itself, is possible to identify elements of the Paulista modernism repertoire, such as horizontal windows, the overhangs, rigid lines in angles and whiteness.
The construction preserved the existing trees and bamboos defining the entrance, enhancing the volume, the 3,60m overhangs and the transparent frames, improving the transparency and to privilege the visual integration between the inside and the outside.
The abundant transparency required, however, solutions to control the incidence of light, with thermal acoustic tiles, hidden by plate bands, are on the entire roof to improve the building’s comfort and energy efficiency. The same motive led to installation of brises and blinds in the facades more subject to sunlight, a resource contribution to protect the tenants´ privacy in the top floor ambiances, at street level.
The circulations proposed suggest the occupants to come out to wooden decks with an integrated space, large glass frames emphasize the continuity between the interior and exterior. TV room, dining room and office, reveal themselves behind high retractable gates and all environments are united as a large loft.
The house also has sewage treatment, solar heater, cross ventilation, windows with heat control, polystyrene insulation, digital control of lighting, recycled wood, among other measures that make this building less harmful for the environment, and a great home.
Site area: 2,500m²
Project area: 1,000m²
Architect: Monica Drucker
Project team: Fausto Chino
Location: São Paulo, Brasil
Project year: 2007/2009
Structure engineering: Aiello Engenharia e Consultoria
Construction management: Tudisco Engenharia e Empreendimentos
Landscape Project: Alalou
HACV (Air conditioning): EPT Engenharia
Visit the Drucker Arquitetura website – here.
Photography © João Ribeiro
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andeson on 30 Aug 2010 at 3:05 pm #
Love the house.
The outdoor photos are kind of repetitive tough.
Jimw on 30 Aug 2010 at 5:15 pm #
Can someone explain what this means…..
“….the house spreads like a bar code for the city’s landscape. The house is a research idea of balcony space as fluid and its abstract expression as a mechanism to filter and shade.”……??
It has me flummoxed.
But despite some of the effective and attractive design resolutions (ie., ” The glass frames emphasize the continuity between the interior and exterior.” along with the landscaping.), again the excess of these trophy houses in today’s world is questionable and as professionals, we should be obligated to educate and redirect the paradigm. Is 8600 S.F. necessary for a single family residence? And as the narrative implies, patting one’s self on the back for including “measures of green architecture” is token and self-serving in the demonstration of a project such as this. If your designing excess, don’t try to blur it as green and sustainable and responsible. You’re not getting it both ways. (and since when is polystyrene insulation green?)
Many will find this their dream house, and it has a number of nice features and materials. But houses like this should remain dreams and we need to all start living, not within our own means, but living within the capacity of the Earth’s ability to exist despite what our money can buy.
Miss Honey on 30 Aug 2010 at 6:03 pm #
It’s a dream house, love the large windows but 2 dinning rooms? why?
kmg on 30 Aug 2010 at 6:53 pm #
I like the cabinets in the kitchen! Anybody know what those are??
brocko on 30 Aug 2010 at 10:53 pm #
I really like the design with the grand windows and the outside dining area. Except the bathrooms, are really poor compared to the rest. I seemed to me like there was not so much heart in it designing. However, the image of the whole makes up for a lot. Good work.
TW on 31 Aug 2010 at 1:38 am #
As usual, I agree with JimW.
Whilst the house has some beautiful detailing, I can’t see past the fact that this house is 1000m2. Thtat is a ridiculous size in this day and age and that makes this project downright ugly.
And as I have mentioned on here before, paying lip service to sustainability is worse than not addressing it at all. Nothing that big could ever be considered sustainable or “green”.
@Jimw on 31 Aug 2010 at 8:52 am #
About the crazy english composition…Or it was badly translated by the people who submitted the project (it sounds very bad brazilian english (I am a brazilian by the way)) or the text was just translated online.
The Green features…well it does not exist in Brazil…it is very fashion to say it is green but there is no literature enough about the matter either for professionals or clients. Brazilian Architecture despite of high talent is still very intuitive when regards to technology. But the project is a nice one anyways!
Stephanie on 31 Aug 2010 at 11:38 am #
I am in love with the fluid light fixture above the dinning table. Manufacturer / company name anyone?
slim on 31 Aug 2010 at 12:18 pm #
The showers are very poorly designed. The steam and heat will escape over the low glass enclosures – you’d need to crank up the heat and start it well before you get in to feel steamy at all. Definitely the antithesis of an energy-efficient shower. It would have been so easy to extend the glass to the ceiling.
Marcelo on 31 Aug 2010 at 1:47 pm #
slim, this is in Brazil, not Iceland. It’s hot in Brazil. It’s tropical. People don’t need extra heat and steam in their showers. They probably designed it to allow heat and steam to escape ON PURPOSE, and as a result this is not “very poorly designed” but very well designed.
Don’t be so quick to accuse people of doing bad design.
Great on 31 Aug 2010 at 2:16 pm #
Exterior is nice.
Interior is like a jumble of hits and a lot of misses.
Photography could use a little more creativity when it comes to angles.
And no, I didn’t bother to read the text.
kmg on 31 Aug 2010 at 7:47 pm #
I’m not such a staunch criticizer of oversized residences… I kind of think it’s a fashionable critique right now.
But importantly, I feel that arguments involving sustainability should be very context-specific. And I for one don’t have the benefit of much context in this case…
Nonetheless – and like others, there are some details I like here – I’m growing a little weary of the modernist ultra-white trophy house with a pool. It’s becoming a bit trite I think…
BjZ on 01 Sep 2010 at 5:29 am #
Sooooo many pics and no floor plan images! It’s an alright house though.
PK on 03 Sep 2010 at 9:43 am #
It’s a question of viewpoint. I dont think a 1000 sq.m is oversize. It depends on who you are, and what you are trying to achieve. A CEO of a huge IT who entertains often might like such luxury. I live and work in Zimbabwe, Africa, a country where there is MAJOR gap between the rich and the poor. Those who have made it, prefer to express their success in such mammoth monuments. 1000sq.m is not really much in the context of most southern hemisphere countries because space & labour are cheap.
Green? I’m tired of cheesy jargon & wordplay employed by architects, long after they have designed irresponsible solutions. I find it hard to understand how a glass facade can be green. Simple physics tell us that a glass facade translates to greater contact with external atmosphere. Which means a larger load on the aircon. If architects were really into “green design”, they’d cut the talk and start walking ie: limiting opening sizes.
Compositionally, the house is beautiful. It looks like a million dollars. I would LOVE to live here.