🏛️ Architecture & Design 19h ago · Srishti Mitra

The Forest Came First. The House Came Second. That Was Always the Plan.

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The Forest Came First. The House Came Second. That Was Always the Plan.
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Most architects are handed a site and told to make something of it. Luiz Volpato was handed a forest and told not to ruin it. House 17-JB, completed in 2022 within the Jardins do Batel condominium in Curitiba, southern Brazil, grew out of a deeply personal brief: a client of Italian descent, a self-professed architecture enthusiast, wanted to find not just land, but the ‘right’ land.
Together with the office, they eventually settled on a plot defined by two non-negotiable conditions

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