Located in a residential condominium plot, Portal de Segóvia I House is designed on two floors and built on reinforced concrete, with sealings in masonry covered by natural ceramic bricks and a pane of glass.
Project: Portal de Segóvia I House
Studio Name: Verri & Galvão Architects Studio Website: www.verrigalvao.arq.br
Design Team: Aníbal Verri Júnior
Area: 412,00 m²
Year: 2013
Location: Maringá, Paraná, Brazil
Photography Credits: Jefferson Ohara (www.jeffersonohara.com.br)
The first floor, established as the place for socializing, has its principal access within a zenith- opening hall, which creates a welcoming atmosphere with filtered natural light. In the space continuity, there is a tv room that faces the front garden and a flexible area with a bathroom, that serves as an office or a guest room. On a lower level, accommodating the natural plot levels, the most common space is composed of the integration of living and dining rooms, kitchen, and leisure area, with a large window that provides plenty of natural light and visual integration with the pool and gardens. In the front portion of the site, a metallic cover is anchored to the residence, defining the garage space. In the rear part of the site, the service and support areas were positioned in a single line.
On the upper floor, which has a more intimate character, two eastern suites receive the morning sunlight, and the master bedroom, in the western portion, has a small terrace that protects the living area from the sun, ensuring thermal comfort. Between the bedrooms, a corridor and a music studio were designed with glass facades, allowing some integration with the other floor. A volumetric subtraction composes a diagonal plane, from the first floor to the roof, that creates a double-height space and frames the city landscape with a rich spatiality.
The house responded to conventional programmatic demands, articulating the extensive program with the plot’s dimensions. Its design provides natural lighting, ventilation, and spatial integration in the internal and external portions of the volumetric solution.
The Office
Verri & Galvão Architects is an architecture studio founded in 1996, managed by Aníbal Verri Júnior, who simultaneously maintains professional and academic activities as a professor at the State University of Maringá since 2003, besides participating in class entities and the architecture and urbanism council.
The projects designed by the office are a result of the combination between the interpretation and attention to the plot’s constraints, understood as challenges, and by the structure optimization; in this method, there is a legacy of modern architecture. The office has been developing projects of different scales, gathering in its history commercial, institutional, residential, and retrofit projects, as well as furniture design, meeting both public and private demands.
Verri & Galvão’s work is based on the association between the requests that come to the office and designing with a critical posture about the quality of spaces.
The Team
Verri & Galvão Architects is a team of architects with two founding partners:
Aníbal Verri Júnior, architect graduated in 1993 at the State University of Londrina (UEL), with a master’s degree in 2001 at the University of São Paulo (USP). He is also a professor in the Architecture and Urbanism Department at the State University of Maringá (UEM).
Tânia Nunes Galvão Verri, architect graduated in 1994 at the State University of Londrina (UEL), with a master’s degree in 2001 at the University of São Paulo (USP) and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (IAU-USP). She is also a professor in the Architecture and Urbanism Department at the State University of Maringá (UEM) and served as Director of Construction and Projects of the university campus between 2016 and 2022.
