Casa Nativa
Projects

Casa Nativa

Type

House

Project

2025

Built

2027 · expected

Area

500 m²

Location

Bosque do Horto, Jundiaí, SP — Brazil

Nativa is what belongs. The house is born from the same earth that supports it — original materials, proportions of the place, light guided by the Brazilian seasons.

The site is located in Alphaville, Jundiaí, within a context that demanded a precise architectural response to insolation and environmental comfort conditions. From the outset, the main challenge was to balance the clients' initial desire for a compact house, organized in a single block, with the need to ensure thermal quality, cross ventilation, and adequate natural light.

The adopted solution starts from fragmenting the program into two distinct volumes — a strategy that optimizes environmental performance and qualifies spatial experience. This division creates breathing space between the blocks, favoring air circulation and light entry at different moments of the day. The first block, facing the lot's entrance, concentrates support and arrival functions: garage, an office with bathroom (with the option of converting to a ground-floor suite), and the vertical circulation axis, with part of the private program distributed on the upper floor.

The project then opens to the second block — which gathers the residence's main social and intimate environments. This volume is strategically oriented toward the back of the lot, where insolation is most favorable. The pool and leisure areas were positioned in this section, reinforcing the relationship between interior and exterior. The volumes' implantation allows all rooms to relate directly with the gardens, establishing a constant connection with the vegetation and amplifying the sense of spatial continuity.

Casa Nativa's materiality reinforces its identity: wood, stone, concrete, and cementitious surfaces build a language that values constructive honesty and the texture of materials. More than a technical solution, Nativa asserts itself as architecture born from place and climate — a house that organizes itself from light, wind, and landscape, translating in its form and materiality a contemporary reading of the Brazilian essence of dwelling.

Principal Architect Felipe Saia
Architecture Team Pietro Verrecchia
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