有两个年轻的朋友在Vila Madalena社区的一栋楼的底层买了一套公寓。虽然那里的生活很紧张,但它保持了圣保罗住宅区的一些乡土气息。

There were two young friends who bought an apartment on the ground floor of a building in Vila Madalena neighborhood. Although life there is intense, it keeps some bucolic aspects of São Paulo residential neighborhoods.

他们开始经常有像他们这样的年轻人,有些是巴西人,有些是外国人,在后面的小房间里做客,时间不长。然后他们注意到,他们可以用这个房间来接待客人,而且更加舒适。

They started often having young people like them, some Brazilian and some foreigners, as guests in the small room in the back for a short while. Then they noticed that they could use the room to receive guests with much more comfort.

选择 “Puxadinho “这个名字是因为它指的是巴西城市中非常常见的一种非正式建筑,同时,它也是识别这个建筑的特殊特征的一个好方法,它与以前的建筑是封闭的。
该项目和工程面临的挑战是,首先,预算非常有限,而且空间小,难以进入建筑工地。

The name “Puxadinho” was chosen because it refers to a kind of informal building very common in Brazilian cities and, simultaneously, it was a nice way of identifying the peculiar feature of the building, enclosed to the previously existing one.
The challenges for the project and for the undertaking were, at first, the very limited budget, besides the small space and difficult access to the building site.

第一步是拆除现有的建筑,一个非常不稳定的建筑,并创建两个房间和一个浴室,可以单独或一起使用,因此,扩大了该地区的容量。

The first step was to demolish the existing building, a very unsteady one, and to create two rooms and a bathroom which could be used separately or together, therefore, extending the capacity of the area.

然而,在整个过程中,有可能发现在客人不使用卧室的时候扩大社交区域的机会,以及利用屋顶种植植物和作为休闲和日光浴区的可能性。
门是为创造新的预期动态而采用的一个关键解决方案。
在文学或哲学中,门通常有一种隐喻的意义,将其与未来的几种可能性或机会的关闭联系起来。在字典条目中,门的意思是显示入口或定义出口。

However, throughout the process, it was possible to identify the opportunity to extend the social areas while the bedrooms were not used by guests and the possibility of using the rooftop to grow plants and as a leisure and sunbathing area.
The door was a key solution adopted to create the new intended dynamics.
In literature or in philosophy, doors usually have a metaphoric meaning that connects them to several possibilities in the future or to the closing of opportunities. In the dictionary entry, doors are meant to show entrance or define exits.

但普萨迪诺的情况并非如此:在那里,它是主要元素,负责不同空间的灵活性,扩展或限制它们,但总是在社会区域和私人空间之间建立几个层次的整合。

But it is not the case of Puxadinho: there it is the main element, accountable for the flexibility of different spaces, extending or restricting them, however always establishing several levels of integration among the social areas and the private spaces.

通过门,同一个灵活的区域可以打开三种可能性之一:一个客厅和一个套房,或者,一个带卧室和浴室的客厅,或者,两个卧室和一个浴室。
屋顶,将外部区域延伸到楼上,除了提供城市的优越景观外,还结合了之前设计的其他用途。

Through the door, the same flexible area may open up one of three possibilities: a living room and a suite, or, a living room with a bedroom and a bathroom or, then again, two bedrooms and a bathroom.
The rooftop, which extended the external area to the upstairs level, besides offering a privileged view of the city, incorporates the other previously designed uses.

建筑系统包括使用混凝土模制的格子板,支撑在砖块分层的混凝土结构上。这个系统为一个狭窄的空间提供了廉价、快速和有效的建筑,而且很难进入。而窗框以及楼梯和长椅则是由金属制品和木工制成。

The construction system consisted on the use of concrete molded lattice panel slabs supported on a brick layered concrete block structure. This system enabled a cheap, fast and effective construction for a narrow space with difficult access. Whereas the window frames, as well as the stairs and the benches were made of metal work and carpentry.

赋予该项目另一个现代性的可持续发展之处在于,所有从屋顶排出的雨水都被引向一个蓄水池,从而使其能够用于清洁外部区域和浇灌植物。
当灵活性、可持续性和现代性的概念被添加到对原始空间的干预中时,这就产生了年轻朋友的梦想和Puxadinho项目,它也给这种在巴西现实中如此常见的特殊的非正式建筑概念赋予了新的意义。

The touch of sustainability that gives the project another aspect of modernity is the fact that all the rainfall water drained from the rooftop is directed to a cistern, thus enabling its use for cleaning the external area and for watering the plants.
When concepts of flexibility, sustainability and modernity are added to the intervention in the original space that gave birth to the dream of young friends and to the Puxadinho project, it also gives a new meaning to the concept of this peculiar kind of informal construction so common in the Brazilian reality.

Architects: VAGA
Area: 18 m²
Year: 2016
Manufacturers: Marcenaria Embaúba, Ramper Instalações
Text:Fátima Menezes
Authors:Fernando O’leary, Pedro Domingues, Pedro Faria
City:Vila Madalena
Country:Brazil