From 5 to 20 November 2021 we will hold, in partnership with the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of USP, the Goethe Institut São Paulo and the Tiny Foundation of Berlin, a workshop for the development of projects for the Jaraguá House, the first house Compartilha .
The work was carried out by 10 groups (pairs and trios) of students and recently graduated architects. We had daily meetings and guidance from Professors José Eduardo Baravelli and Renato Cymbalista (FAUUSP) and architects Van Bo Le Mentzel (Tiny House Foundation), Artur Duarte (master FAU-USP) and Hugo Bellini (Volumétrica Arquitetura).
Architect Van Bo Le Mentzel specialises in small spaces. His work aims, through intelligent design, to enable smaller and therefore more affordable dwellings. In 2015, in the midst of the refugee crisis in Germany, the architect, faced with many people waiting in line for a place in a Berlin asylum, quickly built a shelter with pieces of wood found on the street.
From this experience, he created the Tiny Foundation in 2019. Today he develops a project, in partnership with Bauhaus-Archiv, for the development of houses with 10m² and on wheels, the space of a garage space. This knowledge is also very useful to develop better solutions for shared houses, a very common reality for students and families with few resources around the world. Therefore, their participation in the workshop was fundamental.
The proposals developed range from minimal interventions (and lower cost) to extensive remodeling of room divisions. All with strategies to optimize the space considering as tenants an extended family, composed by 1 couple, 2 children, 1 young adult and 1 elderly couple. Moreover, the language varies a lot: initially the students worked with mock-ups, but by the end there were watercolours, comic drawings, realistic renders and technical drawings. You can see the final results here.
The move of the family should take place by the end of 2021. We now intend to start a cost estimation and structural/legal feasibility analysis together with the network professionals Architecture in Developmentfrom whom we are receiving an acceleration. Finally, after these analyses, we will open a conversation space with the new inhabitants to show the proposals and hit the desirable reforms.
