塞拉多之家建在米纳斯吉拉斯州的山脉Sierra da Moeda的山脚下。这座有三间卧室的房子有一个屋顶游泳池和一个宽大的楼梯，通向屋顶露台。房间就在游泳池下面，可以看到山地、塞拉多和其扭曲的树木。北面和西面的百叶窗可以抵御恶劣的阳光。

The Cerrado House was built at the foothills of the Sierra da Moeda, a mountain range in the state of Minas Gerais. The three-bedroom house has a rooftop pool and a wide staircase that leads to the rooftop terrace. The rooms are right under the swimming pool and have views of the sierra, the Cerrado and its twisted trees. Louvers on the northern and western faces protect against the inclement sun.

这里的功能和形式之间的游戏是自发的和非教条的：游泳池的斜坡和楼梯被不可抗拒地印在立面上，并塑造了内部空间。方案来源的运用被直接体现出来：这是一种生成策略，将方案/形式关系作为一种绝对的、不可避免的对应关系进行探索。

The play between function and form here is spontaneous and undogmatic: the ramps and stairs of the swimming pool are stamped irrepressibly onto the façades and shape the internal space. The employment of the programmatic source is made directly manifest: it is a generative strategy that explores the programme/form relationship as an absolute and inevitable correspondence.

为了寻求基本建筑元素的可塑性，该项目还夸大了这个被低估和受威胁的生物群落：塞拉多。没有景观设计：房子坐落在自然地形上，从游泳池的平台上可以看到其广阔的视野。

Seeking the plasticity of basic architectural elements, the project also exalts this underestimated and threatened biome: the Cerrado. There is no landscape design: the house sits on natural terrain, whose immensity and vistas are best seen from the pool terrace.

背景描述

塞拉多是巴西的七个生物群落之一，面积为150万平方公里。它拥有巴西所有生物多样性的三分之一，世界上5%的植物和动物，并且是该国三个最大的水文盆地（亚马逊、圣弗朗西斯科和巴拉那/巴拉圭）的上游所在地。它拥有独特的植物群，并因其宽大的树木和低矮的灌木丛而脱颖而出，融入了非洲大草原和欧洲大草原的南美变种中。鉴于其生态、地缘政治和文化的特殊性，塞拉多被认为是国家一体化的生物群落。

Context Description

The Cerrado is one of the country’s seven biomes and covers an area of 1.5 million km². It holds about a third of all Brazilian biodiversity, 5% of the world’s flora and fauna, and is home to the headwaters of the three largest hydrographic basins in the country (Amazon, São Francisco, and Paraná/ Paraguay). It has a unique flora and stands out for its generously-spaced trees and low-slung brushwood, blending into a South-American variation on the African savannah and the European steppe. Given its ecological, geopolitical and cultural specificities, the Cerrado is considered the biome of national integration.

塞拉多的土壤曾经被认为是酸性的，无法耕种。但是，自从农学家在20世纪80年代开始使用工业数量的石灰后，这些土壤就被改变了。现在，塞拉多地区生产了巴西70%的农业产出。

The soils of the Cerrado were once regarded as too acidic to farm. But since agronomists began applying industrial quantities of lime in the 1980s, these soils have been transformed. The Cerrado now produces 70% of Brazil’s agricultural output.

近年来，塞拉多的生态破坏速度是亚马逊的两倍，虽然亚马逊的大部分雨林还在，但塞拉多以前2亿公顷的土地有60%以上已经消失在耕地之下，而且大部分是在过去20年内。它一直是一个保护的黑洞：只有2%的生态系统被保护。然而，巴西的农业学家和部长们仍在谈论，好像它根本没有保护价值。

In recent years, the rate of ecological destruction of the Cerrado has been twice that of the Amazon, and while the majority of the Amazon rainforest survives, more than 60% of the Cerrado’s former 200 million hectares has disappeared under the plough, and most of that within the last two decades alone. It has been a black hole for conservation: only 2% of the ecosystem is protected. However, Brazilian agriculturalists and ministers still talk as if it had no conservation value at all.

Architects: Vazio S/A
Area : 320 m²
Year : 2015
Photographs :Gabriel Castro / Reverbo, Silvio Todeschi, Carlos Teixeira
Manufacturers : Arq Pedras, Celite, Docol, JJ Esquadrias, Sol e Ar, Templuz, Vitrale
Construction : Nova Engenharia
Structural Design : RAD
Electrical Design / Plumbing : Matheus Elias
Design Team : Carlos M Teixeira, Leonardo Rodrigues, Daila Araújo, Frederico Almeida
Electrical Design : Matheus Elias
Plumbing : Matheus Elias
City : Moeda
Country : Brazil