Mercury House

Over the course of my professional life, I have come across land with large gaps several times. Land with large unevenness is no longer synonymous with a house with many steps. A special formula used by the architect Aquiles Nícolas Kílaris ended this architectural dilemma. The professional signed the project for a property built on a land with a slope of 6.60 meters and few flights of stairs. The 508 m2 residence, located in a closed condominium in Campinas, was designed for a business couple with two children. The solution for this project was to raise the level of the property in relation to the street. With double height, the environments were distributed in five different levels. At the heart of the house, a central staircase is responsible for this distribution, marked with half a foot on each level. The most used social spaces, such as the dining room, home theater, service area, gourmet and swimming pool are on the same level, making it unnecessary to use the stairs to move between them. As a final result, an airy property was reached, with few walls, light and contemporary. The leisure area, with gourmet space and swimming pool is integrated with the entire residence. The gourmet space received an oven, barbecue and stove, meal tables and bench. The spa and pool, built in reinforced concrete, were designed to receive the morning sun, with a shaded corner in the afternoon. The internal lining is made of porcelain tile in shades of blue, thus giving the sensation of different levels of depth and movement. They have a gas heating system, underwater lighting technology and a waterfall with LEDs. As a prominent architectural solution, there is the retaining wall (required by the slope of the land) located in front of the pool. Covered with filleted stone, it accommodates a beautiful waterfall that alludes to the waterfalls found in nature. A deck for the solarium was designed on the top of this wall.