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Fazenda SerrAzul · Itupeva, Brazil

Casa NG

A house open to the forest and private from the street.

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Project facts

Location: Fazenda SerrAzul, Itupeva · SP
Programme: Single-family home
Area: 740 m²
Scope: Architecture and interiors
Materials: Natural stone, walnut veneer, timber ceilings and porcelain floors
Status: Completed and lived in

The project

Set within Fazenda SerrAzul, the plot ends at a protected forest. From this view, the house was born.

The family’s brief was easy to say and hard to do: a house for welcoming people, for living close to nature and, once the door is closed, for feeling at home. The answer was a wide opening onto the green at the back, living rooms that open completely to the garden and a discreet façade for whoever arrives.

Architecture and interiors were designed together, from the first sketch to the last detail. That is why the finished house looks exactly as it was designed: every material and every view was decided before construction began.

740 m²of designed area, between the house and the leisure spaces

14 mclear span, with no columns, facing the forest

5houses designed by the studio at Fazenda SerrAzul

Casa NG street façade: a dark volume resting on a natural stone frame, with a garden at the entrance — Arrival: the dark volume rests on the stone frame and keeps the house private from passers-by.

Casa NG dining and living rooms, open to the garden and the forest through an end-to-end glass wall — Dining and living rooms facing the garden

01The frame

A 14-metre opening onto the forest.

With no columns in the way, the back wall became a window. The structure, studied and sized together with the engineers from the very first study, lets the indoor and outdoor spaces merge into a single room.

Glass doors slid back: the living room with its stone wall continues onto the veranda, with armchairs and the pergola behind — Living room and veranda, with the doors tucked away

02Inside becomes outside

The doors disappear into the wall.

The glass panels slide into a pocket. With no frames in sight, living room and veranda become one place, and the whole house opens onto the pool.

Living room with a timber ceiling, walnut panel with a lit niche, stone wall and pink armchairs — Stone, walnut and timber in the living room

03Materials that carry on

The same stone, inside and out.

The natural stone crosses the glass and continues onto the veranda. Walnut veneer panels, timber ceilings and pale porcelain floors bring warmth without weight.

The intention
“When we design a project, we want the client to close the door and feel at home.”

Fernando Consoni, architect and partner

Kitchen with a dark stone island, wooden stools and pale joinery that hides the appliances — The kitchen, with appliances hidden in the joinery

04The kitchen that hides

When guests arrive, the kitchen disappears.

Fridge and dishwasher clad in joinery, the laundry door blended into the panelling, a built-in bin and sockets inside the cabinets. In sight, only stone and wood.

Long dining table under glass pendant lights, with the kitchen on the right and the wooden staircase behind — The long table, a few steps from the kitchen

05Everyone at the table

Every family, its own personality.

With a purpose-designed extraction system, the barbecue is built into the counter. Whoever is in charge never leaves the conversation, and gatherings happen at the heart of the house.

The suite’s bathtub in the glazed corner, facing the trees and the lawn — The suite’s bathtub, facing the trees

06Refuge and prospect

Sheltered and, at the same time, looking into the distance.

Neuroarchitecture calls it refuge and prospect: we feel good when we are sheltered and can see the horizon. The house is private towards the street and open to the landscape. In the suite, the bathtub fits into the glass corner. Freedom and privacy level with the treetops.

Inside the house

A walk-through with the people who live there and the people who designed it.

Nina, who lives at Casa NG, walks through the rooms with the architects: from the living room that becomes a garden to the refuge with a view.

Videos recorded for the Portas Abertas programme (in Portuguese).

Gallery

Every room, taken slowly.

10 photographs

Aerial view of the pool, the deck and the garden with its fire pit — Aerial view: pool, deck and garden

Powder room with a backlit stone counter and dark walls — Powder room with a backlit counter

Timber deck with sun loungers, armchairs and the pergola behind — Veranda, deck and pergola

Timber pergola among tropical foliage, with the pool and the forest behind — The pergola among the foliage

Staircase with wooden steps beside the stone wall, with pink armchairs and the garden behind the glass — The stair and the garden behind the glass

Suite with a dark slatted wall, pale headboard and wooden bedside table — Suite

Living room with a curved sofa, wooden coffee tables and a stone wall, open to the garden — Living room open to the garden

The house seen from the back of the plot, with the pool, the garden steps and the fire pit — The house seen from the garden

Entrance façade with a stone frame, dark volume and trees at the entrance — The street entrance

Cinema room with a bookcase, screen and grey sofas — Cinema and library

Nina, who lives at Casa NG

Who lives here

“The house turned out exactly like the design. During construction I was already picturing everyday life here, and it is everything I imagined. We trust their work: the way they designed it, we said, build it just like that.”

Nina, who lives at Casa NG

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