Cordas House.
Angra dos Reis · 2024 · Residence · 645 m²
Project by Bernardes Arquitetura, Rio de JaneiroMy role: interior architect within the studio team (credited)Photography © Leonardo Finotti
The idea
A house by the water where wood is the whole language — structure, skin and interior spoken in the same warm material.
Wood inside and out, until architecture and interior become one thing.
The same warm material, from structure to skin.
Openings framed for the sea, and nothing else.
A room that smells of cedar and salt.
From the water, the house reads as a single drawn line.
Process
When one material does everything, tolerance becomes the design. Working by the sea in Angra meant detailing wood for salt, sun and time — and trusting it to age into the landscape instead of against it.
Material
Wood, and the sea for contrast.
Interiors within the Bernardes team · Photography Leonardo FinottiView at Bernardes ↗
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