Acapu House by Studio Andre Lenza
Acapu House sits in Goiânia as a house by Studio Andre Lenza, drawn from the site’s four-meter fall. The project arranges daily life across three volumes that step with the terrain. Built for a couple at the start of family life, the home privileges open gathering, sunlight, and a direct line between living areas and the water.
Morning light slides across the slope and catches the first riser. The house rises gently from street level, its volumes stepping to match the four-meter fall of ground.
A house in the Ipês condominium, Acapu House in Goiânia by Studio Andre Lenza organizes life by level and approach. The plan answers grade and routine at once—garage below, social rooms mid-slope, and quiet suites above.
Climb and Arrive
Entry begins at the lower block, where the garage sits flush with the street and the first stair rises. There’s no conventional front door here: visitors move up directly to the leisure zone, meeting friends at the gourmet veranda without passing through private rooms.
Stack the Programs
Three clear blocks carry the brief and keep circulation legible. The intermediate volume holds living room, gourmet veranda, and pool as one open sweep, while the upper volume turns perpendicular above, casting shade and defining the edge of the social core.
Pool as Daily Anchor
Set to catch sun throughout the day, the water reads as the heart of leisure and the center of the plan. Reflections off the pool brighten the veranda in September’s dry light, and the sequence from cooking to lounging to swimming happens without a door or a pause.
Light, Shadow, Cover
The upper block rests across the social level, a plane over a plane that sharpens edges and draws deep shade. This perpendicular layup creates a calm undercroft for gatherings, and the contrast of sun and shadow guides movement from the bright pool to the cooler living room.
Rooms to Outlooks
Suites open to private balconies that frame the surroundings and extend daily routines outdoors. The master suite faces sunset and stretches up to a small rooftop for contemplation (a quiet perch with views of the lake and the cerrado beyond).
By day the house breathes across its mid-slope veranda, with light raking along floors and water marking time. By evening the upper volume throws long shade and the rooftop steals the last glow, a measured finish to a plan tuned to site and routine.
Photography by Edgard Cesar
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