Patios House Landscaping: Lush Paths Guide A Seaside Home
Patios House Landscaping stands on Brazil’s Costa Verde in Mangaratiba, where Rodrigo Oliveira shapes a lush, route-driven garden for a low-slung coastal residence by Studio MK27. The project orients daily life around courtyards, shaded paths, and open terraces that drift toward the water. It’s a residential landscape tuned to breeze and light, a calm counterpoint to the mountain’s edge.
Morning light skims the brick and low concrete edges, catching leaves beaded with salt air. A path drops from the ridge, trading driveway glare for green shade and a measured pace.
This is a residential landscape in Mangaratiba, designed by Rodrigo Oliveira for a coastal house by Studio MK27. Two single-story volumes slip along the slope while the garden choreographs how one moves and looks, linking arrival, living areas, and suites through a sequence of courtyards and edges.
Arrive From Above
Entry starts at the high point, where only a roofline first registers against forest. Privacy is set early: a slim, winding walk in stone pulls the gaze inward, screen-planted to veil neighbors and quiet the descent. Palms and broad-leaf underplanting lean close to an exposed brick wall, turning the approach into a narrow, cool corridor that makes the house reveal itself slowly.
Thread The Volumes
The two horizontal bars read as a calm backdrop while the central courtyard becomes the hinge. Orthogonal lines meet loose, tropical planting, with irregular stone slabs suggesting barefoot circulation and easy pauses. Plant masses rise and fall in layers to build depth and keep greenery in view from the social rooms, while filtered daylight slips between leaves to soften hard edges.
Sit With The Fire
At the courtyard’s center, a fire pit anchors an outdoor lounge, scaled for daylong use and moonlit evenings. Low seating gathers under foliage so conversations sit inside the garden, not beside it, and discreet lighting traces steps and trunks without glare—architecture and landscape share one quiet brightness.
Face The Horizon
Toward the sea, planting thins and dries to widen the view. A light-canopy tree casts shade without stealing the horizon, while fruiting beds and mid-height trees along the margins preserve privacy where houses sit closer. The pool terrace reads as an extension of daily life, blue meeting blue as living rooms push outdoors.
Quiet Private Courts
Behind the second volume, five suites each hold a small court tuned to height and texture. Foliage steps up toward the rear gable, stacking coarse and fine leaves against rough brick and a concrete floor with exposed aggregate. Even bathrooms borrow greenery, turning routine into a brief garden moment.
Afternoon shadows pool across stone as the mountain breeze moves the canopy. The garden acts as the house’s slow tempo, letting routes and rooms unfold at human speed. Nothing shouts—materials, plants, and light do the work.
Photography by Pedro Kok
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