Arches House by ARKITITO Arquitetura
Arches House sits in São Paulo, Brazil, near Pôr-do-Sol Square, where vaulted roofs meet a revived family layout. ARKITITO Arquitetura leads the renovation of this house, refining circulation and gathering rooms across its stepped levels. The project moves key functions to promote easy daily life while respecting the 1970s concrete structure.
Late afternoon filters across the vaulted roofs and white walls. Downstairs, garden light slides toward the social rooms, tying the day’s rhythm to the heart of the home.
This house in Alto de Pinheiros is a renovation by ARKITITO Arquitetura that reorders a split-level residence for a family of four. The plan is the driver, respecting the original concrete and arching profiles while relocating functions for clearer daily use and easier conversations between rooms.
Rework the Levels
The original split-level organization fractured circulation and hid key programs. By treating the levels as connected bands, the architects concentrate shared life where it can expand, then pull quiet rooms upward for privacy. A cleaner loop emerges between entry, living, and garden, reducing backtracking and bringing longer sightlines through the house.
Kitchen Meets Garden
The kitchen moves from a tight middle floor to the lower level. That single shift ties cooking to the TV room, barbecue, and the planted edge, so conversation carries easily between activities without losing proximity to the outdoors. Daily rituals land where the vaulted roof gathers light, and the garden now reads as an extension of the social core.
Two-Part Living Room
Entry brings you to a generous intermediate floor arranged as two complementary rooms. One side is tuned for music practice, while the other becomes an intimate library with a fireplace and a custom wooden shelf for the household’s books. Visual permeability holds, letting both rooms stay in quiet dialogue across the level.
Media and Ceiling Moves
On the social level, two plastered ceiling sections conceal audio and projection runs. The intervention keeps full height at the room’s edges, so the vaults maintain their presence and the concrete reads cleanly along the perimeter. An old fireplace niche becomes a low shelf and TV stand—useful, simple, and aligned with the updated plan.
Linked Upper Suites
Upstairs, the former suite-plus-two-bedrooms arrangement converts to three suites. Bathrooms gain skylights set within the original structural rhythm, bringing soft top light and a calm start to the day. A new linear balcony links the rooms, shades the living below, and—at the main suite—adds a jacuzzi for an easy, private pause.
Material revisions stay quiet and precise. Restored wood floors and the concrete railing anchor movement, while new floor-to-ceiling aluminum windows improve sealing and thermal comfort across the bedrooms. Discreet lighting leans on sconces and linear runs that wash the vaulted ceiling, sending indirect light back into the rooms with comfortable glow.
The plan does the talking. From entry to garden, circulation now supports family life with clear routes, open views, and measured thresholds between activity and rest. Late light grazes the arches, and the house answers in kind.
Photography by Ricardo Faiani
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