The site, of 10,000 m² and adjacent to a beautiful native forest, was slightly downhill facing north and also the best view. The program of this house should be divided between daytime area and night area. The night area would be in higher floor, to provide warmth and safety in this period. On the other hand, the daytime area should stay in a lower floor with full connection to the outside and the garden. The rooms should be broad and open with many patios.

LG House, Bragança Paulista SP Brasil, 2014. Architects Henrique Reinach and Maurício Mendonça (authors)/ Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados
Foto/ photo Nelson Kon

The architectural project set the arrival on ground floor in a block parallel block to the street, where there were implanted support areas such as garage, warehouses and a service residence. Separate of this block by generous service patio, but connected by a suspended walkway, a second block was defined, in which are developed the night and daytime program of the house itself. In the higher floor, but level with the arrival, is the family unit of the program, like an apartment, with living room, kitchen and bedrooms – the so-called night floor.

LG House, Bragança Paulista SP Brasil, 2014. Architects Henrique Reinach and Maurício Mendonça (authors)/ Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados
Foto/ photo Nelson Kon

On the lower level happens daytime floor with a second kitchen, guest’s bedroom and social verandas with leisure areas. A generous patio with double height ceiling in apparent concrete structure, supported by light and slim metal pillars, joins these two floors. An wooden lattice, facing the forest protects this patio of the rising sun.

LG House, Bragança Paulista SP Brasil, 2014. Architects Henrique Reinach and Maurício Mendonça (authors)/ Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados
Foto/ photo Nelson Kon

data sheet

project
LG House

location
Bragança Paulista SP Brasil

date
Project: 2011
Building: 2014

area
Site: 10.631 m²
Building: 1.137 m²

architecture
Henrique Reinach e Maurício Mendonça (authors), Fernanda Almeida (coordination), Tony Chen, Victor Gonçalves, Camila Osele, Taís Vieira, Luena Vettorazzo, Raquel Gonçalves, Silvia Mori, Venâncio Alves, Flávia Henriques, Manuel Tojal, Guilherme Nakata, Lucas Ferreira, Lucas Pohl, Alessandra Musto, Caio Tritto, Olivia Uliano (collaborators)/ Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados

landscape architecture
Luciano Fiaschi Aquitetura Paisagistica

lighting design
Franco Associados Lighting Design

structure
Benedicts Engenharia

electrical engineering
Zamaro Hidráulica: Zamaro

construction
CPA Engenharia e Construções

photo
Nelson Kon