tropical humidity

For this residential project, Camarim Architects was requested by the clients to create a holiday house with 3 bedrooms that gives the maximum experience with the surrounding nature. Mundaú is a fishermen’s village in the state of Ceará, Brazil.

The solution: 3 floors that offer diverse spatial experience in use and approach to nature; looking over the garden on the street level, private spaces that promotes privacy and a public living space that opens up to merge with the sea, coconut trees and sand dunes. In addition, the Architects have incorporated various materials and modern environmental sensitive techniques; precast perforated concrete panels that draw textures of light and shadow from the nearby foliage, passive cooling is achieved by means of the gallery, wooden skins that wraps the gallery filters glare, protects intimacy, drinkable water is obtained from the roof, filtered, stored and pressurized to the tap, energy generated from sun and wind, services run in 2 vertical cores accessible for maintenance and in the absence of a public sewage system, a sceptic tank that cleans up to 90% of the effluent is also considered.