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Carapicuiba House in Brazil

What do you do when you have a site that “weird” that restricts the building of your dreams? How about drawing inspiration from the Carapicuiba House? Built on a ground surface that falls abruptly down to 6m below, architects Angelo Bucci and Alvaro Puntoni have suspended a two level steel structure on pilots and covered it with glass for amazing views. Pure poetry surrounded by a beautiful scenery, it’s an amazing piece of architecture. A modern day “treehouse”? Looks lovely …

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  1. Ionut Staicu
    Posted June 5, 2009 at 10:40 am | Permalink

    And you just have to pray for an earthquake… :D

  2. Brook M.
    Posted June 5, 2009 at 12:41 pm | Permalink

    That’s funny Ionut,…and you are right, I won’t recommend it in my country.
    Nevertheless, it’s just a design and architecture marvel,… 2 thumbs up.

  3. Lucas
    Posted August 3, 2009 at 3:17 am | Permalink

    We don´t have esrthquakes in Brazil.

  4. Sodatale
    Posted August 11, 2009 at 6:29 pm | Permalink

    That is such a cool design! (panda)

  5. adi
    Posted December 23, 2009 at 3:37 am | Permalink

    awesome…… great job..2tumbs for u man…

  6. Rohan
    Posted March 24, 2010 at 9:16 pm | Permalink

    Outstanding. Elegant 3 dimensional and volumetric sophistication. Thank You Angelo and Alvaro.