The Lua House is in Belo Horizonte on a steeply sloping site. It faces the Serra do Curral and the city’s horizon. The view shaped the project’s conception. The house is organized in four stacked levels. Each level functions is as an urban belvedere.
Access is through the street level. A glazed space here acts as a pause within the dense neighborhood and reveals the landscape’s amplitude. This atrium connects the vertical circulation to the upper block, which is dedicated to private areas with the master suite and bedrooms. Two additional rooms on this level complete the family program.
The social areas are located one floor below. Living and kitchen spaces extend outwards to the deck and pool, creating a continuous relationship between interior and exterior. The lowest floor houses service areas and an office, more reserved yet still in dialogue with the view.
Structure plays a central role in the project’s identity. The upper block rests on four branching concrete columns that evoke trees, suggesting the building lightly touches the ground. This volume is clad with a metallic brise-soleil, appearing as a dense and monolithic body from the outside, while internally it filters light and projects shifting shadows throughout the day.
The residents’ fascination with the moon, which rises behind the mountains, adds a symbolic layer. The house’s orientation lets this phenomenon become part of daily life. The view turns into a lived experience. Lua House responds to the site’s urban and topographic conditions. It also incorporates the gaze and admiration of its inhabitants.
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Project name: Lua House
Project location: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Architect: TETRO
Responsable Architects: Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes,and Igor Macedo
Contributors: Gregório Magno, Bianca Carvalho, Bruno Bontempo, Giovanna Giacomo, Luisa Lage, and Carolina Amaral
Project year: 2025
Completion year: 2025
Plot Area: 477 m²
Total Built Area: 455 m²
Photographer: Luisa Lage
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