Vaca Brava Penthouse — Library Loft With Panoramic Park Above Horizons
Vaca Brava Penthouse anchors a generous perch in Goiânia, Brazil, where Studio Andre Lenza turns a vast tower-top residence into an art-led home. Conceived for a couple devoted to painting and literature, the penthouse reads as a suspended house with citywide views, layered leisure rooms, and one extraordinary library. Every daily ritual plays out against treetops and sky.
Treetops rise to meet the window line as the city drops away below. Late sun cuts across stone flooring and warm wood ceilings, pulling the eye toward the park’s horizon.
Within this broad frame, Vaca Brava Penthouse in Goiânia, Brazil unfolds as a true suspended house for a couple devoted to art and books. Studio Andre Lenza organizes 808m² into a continuous living sequence where a pool, gym, verandas, lounges, and a monumental library support daily rituals as much as spectacle.
Rooms stack in parallel to Vaca Brava park, each one reading as a different terrace for living, working, reading, or gathering. Artworks from regional names such as Antônio Poteiro and Siron Franco share the stage with Brazilian furniture from the 1950s and 60s, so that sitting, walking, and even crossing the threshold become part of a quiet exhibition rhythm.
Suspended House Daily Life
From the entry, the apartment stretches toward the sunset like a long viewing deck. A series of indoor and outdoor living areas runs parallel to the park, giving the couple different ways to occupy the same view through the day, from a morning swim by the pool to an evening drink on the gourmet veranda.
Natural wood overhead and stone underfoot link these rooms into one legible domestic path. Friends can drift from gym to lounge to terrace without losing sight of the treetops, while the owners slide between hosting, exercising, and quiet retreat without leaving their elevated precinct.
Art, Texture, And Routine
Every wall and surface participates in the couple’s art-led routine. Paintings and sculptures stand alongside mid-century Brazilian pieces, so pulling out a dining chair or passing a console always involves contact with a crafted object.
The material palette keeps that daily choreography grounded, with the continuous natural wood ceiling and the stone floor acting as a calm frame around the collection. Within that frame, the interior layout leaves room for pause and distance, giving artworks and furniture clear breathing lines while still supporting everyday movement between kitchen, sitting areas, and verandas.
Library As Heart
At 180m², the library reads as the true heart of the home. A custom carpentry scheme lines the room, built to carry the significant point load of thousands of books alongside sculptures, paintings, and smaller art pieces.
Access from both the social area and a hidden door within the master suite’s closet underlines how reading weaves through the couple’s day. The room holds a meeting table, an office corner for the owner, and a complete home theater, so work, study, screenings, and long solitary reading sessions all coexist under one ceiling plane.
Green Edge To The City
Landscaping by Florentino Paisagismo runs along verandas and internal thresholds, blurring the line between the apartment and the crowns of Vaca Brava’s trees. Planters and planted edges sit at eye level, so a walk from lounge to pool passes through layers of foliage, not just furniture groups.
This greenery works with the expansive glazing to stage a continuous dialogue between interior life and the city beyond. Residents move from library to living room to terrace and always return to the same double horizon: leaves in the foreground, skyline and sunset just beyond.
In the end, daily life in Vaca Brava Penthouse revolves around that meeting of collections, comfort, and view. Morning light catching a book spine, afternoon workouts above the park, and long evenings by the water all play out within one coherent elevated home.
The apartment holds its panoramic setting with ease while centering the couple’s routines around art, reading, and shared time, letting the suspended house feel grounded in lived habit.
Photography by Edgard Cesar
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