Location:
Recife, Brasil

Client:
Private

Date:
2015

Surface:

74.465 m²

Status:
Project

To the north of the city of Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco, there is a land of more than 200,000m2 that will serve for the development of the enterprise called “Barrio Verde Paulista”. The special green characteristics of the terrain, being surrounded in its perimeter by the “Mata” or Atlantic forest, have given way to most of the concepts of the Barrio Verde Paulista that we could summarize in; Social, Sustainable and Salubrious, to what we call the “3 S”. These concepts affect urbanism, architecture, health, education, culture and transportation.

At the moment we are two teams of architects working, Johansson Arquitectos and a local office, FGM Arquitectos, of the city of Recife, in different options or urban models of the Master Plan, to sort the land and place: accesses, avenues, streets, green zones, plots or islands and housing and equipment, within a Phase Plan of 10 years.

The planning always takes as reference the site as the basic and unique component which tells us about the climate, light, color, vegetation and way of life of the people. The land contributes with its own unique characteristics such as its shape, orientation, topography and views.

Location:
Itajai, Brasil

Client:
Abramar

Date:
2016

Surface:

53.000 m²

Status:
Contest / Under construction

The planning take the reference from the land management and adjoining areas. These are arranged in a north-south orientation on a reticule of super-blocks oriented east-west. A fragmentation of the building into small parallel blocks arranged in a north-south direction allows a visual and spatial permeability with the buildings of single-family houses in the area. In each architectural planning, the place is a basic component, which provides information on climate, light, color, vegetation and people’s way of life. The terrain provides its own unique characteristics such as shape, orientation, topography and views.

Dialogue with the small scale of the houses and the vertical land arrangement. It creates a sequence of small outdoor spaces in shade and spacious and large spaces, which acts as a true regulator of temperatures so beneficial to the climate and the low energy consumption of homes.

Location:
Navegantes, Brasil

Client:
Abramar

Date:
2016

Surface:

42.000 m²

Status:
Under Construction

The Planning takes as reference the own management of the lands and adjoining areas. These are arranged in a north-south direction on a reticule of super-blocks oriented east-west. A division of the buildings in small parallel blocks, arranged in a north-south direction, allows a visual and spatial permeability with the buildings of single-family houses in the area. The terrain contributes with its own and unrepeatable characteristics such as its shape, orientation, topography and views. A dialogue arises with the small scale of the houses and the vertical layout of the land.

Dialogue with the small scale of the houses and the vertical land arrangement. A sequence of small outdoor spaces in shade, and spacious and sunny spaces appears, which act as an authentic regulator of temperatures so beneficial to the climate and the low energy consumption of homes.

Location:
Itajai, Brasil

Client:
Abramar

Date:
2015

Surface:

23.600 m²

Status:
Contest / Project

The Architectural Planning responds to the client’s demands to develop a decent social housing, and within the framework of the program “Minha Casa Minha Vida”. This means that it will be functional, well distributed, ventilated and illuminated, and of quality, with low cost of maintenance. The proposal must start from a type of two-bedroom home, which must imply the 90% of the total housing.

All the houses will be open to two facades which means climatically “Sustainable”. They will have an interior space called “multiple” of approximately 20 m² for the living-dining-kitchen. The structure of the building will not be a condition of the interior distribution of the house. The houses will have outdoor spaces for the laying of clothes and for the “churrasquera”.

All components of the building such as; structure, bathrooms, kitchens, woodwork, finishes, etc., are part of a catalog of prefabricated and repetitive elements, in order to rationalize construction and reduce costs.

Location:
Lages, Brasil

Client:
Abramar

Date:
2015

Surface:

23.600 m²

Status:
Project

The Architectural Planning has gone through different phases developed during 2015, in response to the proposals and housing programs suggested by the Property.
In all of the land planning, an attempt has been made to find a balance between the number of blocks, 3 or 4, the need to provide a parking space for each house, and the aim of having a central public space without vehicles, that will allow social coexistence and a place of recreation.

The number of houses, the percentage between 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms, and even the heights of the blocks have varied in the land planning. The strong impact of parking areas and vehicular traffic on the surface, makes it necessary to find clear ring traffic solutions and, at the same time, arrange the blocks in such a way in order to provide an urban appeal to the residential complex.

Location:
Granada Spain

Client:
Empresa Pública Suelo Andalucía

Date:
1998-2003

Surface:

40.000 m²

Status:
Contest / Built

The project is the result of the winning proposal of the Europan 3 Contest, whose motto was: “In the city as at home, urbanize residential neighborhoods”. The promoter modified the terrain and offered to develop the ideas of the contest in another field within the same polygon. The houses are developed, fundamentally, in the five plants that owns the building on the ground floor. The greater number of them is contained in the volumes formed by two pairs of elongated blocks arranged parallel to each other that share, two to two, separate spaces between them.

Two other smaller blocks, elevated on the ground level, so that they generate paths diaphanous lower floors, are arranged between da. Its main facades are oriented towards the East, situating towards the west the galleries that give access to the houses.

Location:
Granada Spain

Client:
Empresa Pública Suelo Andalucía

Date:
2005-2009

Surface:

15.300 m²

Status:
Contest / Built

The project is part of the winning proposal of the Europan 3 Contest, whose motto was: “In the city as at home, urbanize residential neighborhoods”. It is proposed a building in independent blocks with four facades as an alternative to the traditional closed block. Different degrees of public and private spaces emerge that translate into patios.

The Project proposed a simple composition with economic materials for the building’s image. For the composition, two well differentiated aspects of gaps; the facades that face the street, horizontal openings with grouped carpentry and the facades to the block patio with vertical gaps and individualized joinery.