Seriema House: TETRO Arquitetura Creates Poetic Home Amidst Brazilian Landscape
Seriema House is located in Brumadinho, Brazil, designed by TETRO Arquitetura in 2024. Set in a serene, nature-integrated environment, this house balances an expansive mountain view and a dense forest, embodying an architectural poetry that features a winding wall that divides bright and lively welcoming areas from silent, shadowed retreats.
Two scenarios that define the landscape
The site where the house was built reveals two distinct scenarios. On the one hand, a wide-open view of the mountains; on the other, a dense forest full of trees. The house fits harmoniously into this balance between wide landscape and shaded refuge. Seriemas, birds typical of the region, roam freely around the site and inspired the name of the residence.
Designed for shared moments
More than a home, the house was conceived as a space to pause. A place to read, rest, contemplate the landscape and share moments with friends. The resident’s desire was to create an environment for meeting and reading, where architecture dialogued with poetry.
A winding wall that reveals contrasting spaces
In architecture, poetry is made through drawing, and the freer it is, the deeper it is. Here, the poetic line materializes in a winding wall that divides the house into two worlds. On the one hand, the welcoming space: bright, full of sounds, music and movement, with an open view of the mountains. On the other, the retreat space: silent, introspective, immersed in the shadows of the forest, dedicated to resting and reading.
Materiality of the stone reinforcing the links with nature
The materiality reinforces this connection with the landscape. The winding wall, clad in black stones, contrasts with the white stone floor. The house is both a shelter and an experience of life. A single material, stone, defines its essence. Casa Seriema is time, river, mountain, cave. It is, above all, poetry.
Photography by Luisa Lage
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