{"id":6395,"date":"2026-04-08T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=6395"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:24:04","slug":"sabella-arquitetura-crowns-brazilian-house-with-gridded-timber-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/sabella-arquitetura-crowns-brazilian-house-with-gridded-timber-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabella Arquitetura crowns Brazilian house with gridded timber roof"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Casa<\/div>\n

A gridded timber roof shelters the interiors and external terraces<\/a> of Casa Colmeia, a low-lying home<\/a> outside S\u00e3o Paolo<\/a> designed by local studio Sabella Arquitetura.<\/span><\/p>\n

Located on a sloping wooded site in Porto Feliz, the 1,600-square-metre home is organised across two wide levels that open out onto a series of tropical gardens designed with landscape designer Treliz Paisagismo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This planting helps to shade Casa Colmeia’s largely glazed exterior, along with folding shutters, external blinds and the deep overhang of the upper level’s gridded timber roof.<\/p>\n

\"Exterior
Sabella Arquitetura has created a low-lying home outside S\u00e3o Paolo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The design of Casa Colmeia emerged from the challenge of its site \u2013 a trapezoidal plot with a slope and a privileged view facing south, which is not the most favourable orientation for habitation,” Sabella Arquitetura<\/a> told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“The strategy was to position the house on the higher level of the terrain, organising it in an L-shape to establish a strong horizontal front facing this view,” it added.<\/p>\n

“This gesture allowed us to structure the house as a kind of ‘grounded’ volume within a sloping site, while also dividing the terrain into two distinct plateaus.”<\/p>\n

\"External
It has an L-shaped plan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Casa Colmeia is organised with an L-shaped plan, with a wing of bedrooms in the longer, south-facing wing of the upper level sitting perpendicular to a large living, dining and kitchen area to the east.<\/p>\n

Two concrete volumes containing a fireplace, bathroom and wine storage demarcate the different zones of this large social space, which opens onto a swimming pool terrace.<\/p>\n

\"Casa
The interiors open out onto a series of tropical gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Connecting these two wings is a corridor that passes between a pair of internal gardens, one of which sits next to the home’s entrance and the other wrapped by a staircase leading down to the home’s lower level.<\/p>\n

“A key moment is the sequence of courtyards, particularly the central atrium, which brings diffused natural light into the living spaces, and the double-height space with the sculptural staircase,” explained the studio.<\/p>\n