{"id":572154,"date":"2026-04-08T17:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572154\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:04:13","slug":"sabella-arquitetura-crowns-casa-colmeia-with-gridded-timber-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572154\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabella Arquitetura crowns Casa Colmeia with gridded timber roof"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/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

\"ExteriorSabella Arquitetura has created a low-lying home outside S\u00e3o Paolo<\/p>\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

\"ExternalIt has an L-shaped plan<\/p>\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

\"CasaThe interiors open out onto a series of tropical gardens<\/p>\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

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“These elements not only organise the house but also shape the experience of moving through it,” it added.<\/p>\n

Uniting the upper level’s interiors and terrace is a glued-laminated timber (glulam) roof structured around a 90-by-90-centimetre grid, with openings for skylights created above the internal courtyards.<\/p>\n

\"LivingA glued-laminated timber roof is a defining feature<\/p>\n

The exposed timber of this roof is a defining feature of the interior, complemented by the thin steel columns that support it, as well as stone and wood floors, and areas of exposed concrete.<\/p>\n

On the lower level of the home, additional guest suites and staff facilities sit alongside a games room, sauna, gym and technical spaces.<\/p>\n

\"InteriorSteel columns support the gridded roof<\/p>\n

Other homes recently completed in S\u00e3o Paolo include Grama House by Studio Arthur Casas,<\/a> which features large roof overhangs and cantilevering volumes that shade its outdoor spaces, and a beach house by Est\u00fadio Rossi Arquitetos with a glued-laminated timber structure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Fran Parente<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gridded timber roof shelters the interiors and external terraces of Casa Colmeia, a low-lying home outside S\u00e3o…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,941,157982,229,88,68109,989,4728,64879,64880,209255,151386,68107],"class_list":{"0":"post-572154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-brazil","12":"tag-brazilian-houses","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-glued-laminated-timber","16":"tag-houses","17":"tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","18":"tag-sectionall","19":"tag-sectionarchitecture","20":"tag-sectionexclusives","21":"tag-su00e3o-paulo","22":"tag-wooden-architecture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}