Luna House by Nommo Arquitetos
Luna House sits at the end of a quiet street in Curitiba, Brazil, where Nommo Arquitetos draw the house into close conversation with the Atlantic Forest. This modern family house stacks a timber-clad base and a pale upper volume, opening daily life to birdsong, filtered light, and a compact pool court. Inside, restrained finishes and large openings keep attention on the shifting greenery beyond the glass.
Sun lands on the timber deck, slides across the pale water of the pool, and stops at the crisp shadow of the upper volume. Beyond the house, a wall of Atlantic Forest trees closes the view and folds the courtyard into green.
This is a compact single-family house in Curitiba by Nommo Arquitetos, organized as a timber-wrapped ground floor with a white upper body resting above. The house responds to the sloping lot and the forested context, setting daily life between a controlled courtyard and long views of trees. Context drives every move: from the way openings frame branches to how service areas climb to the attic so the ground level can stay open and social.
On the narrow site, two longitudinal slopes shape circulation and how the house meets the ground, with the stair aligned along the tightest edge. Social rooms stretch across the lower level, close to the garden and pool, while bedrooms and a family room occupy the upper story for privacy. Above them, an attic terrace and technical zone cap the vertical stack, keeping the compact footprint clear for living.
Stacking Volumes Against The Forest
From the garden, the house reads as a clear composition: a wood-clad base locked to the terrain and a pure white upper block hovering over it. Square windows punch through the light facade, their dark frames sharpening the contrast between built form and dense greenery just beyond the property line. The upper body projects slightly over the deck, throwing shade toward the pool and carving a sheltered outdoor room. Terraces and planted roofs thicken the edge where house and forest meet, softening the geometry with grasses and low shrubs.
Ground Level As Social Court
The ground floor is dedicated to shared routines, with living, dining, and kitchen arranged as one long room that opens wide toward the timber courtyard. A full-height sliding opening dissolves the boundary, so the dining table, poolside lounge, and barbecue annex read almost as one sequence. Materials stay calm: pale flooring, white cabinetry, and slender black fittings sit against vertical timber boards outside, letting the warmth of wood and water set the mood. An external annex gathers storage and the outdoor kitchen, its roof planted to extend the garden above the activity below.
Quiet Rooms Among The Trees
Private rooms on the upper level look outward through carefully scaled square openings that frame specific fragments of sky, foliage, and neighboring roofs. In the main bedroom, wood flooring and cabinetry wrap the lower surfaces while white walls keep daylight bright and steady. Bathrooms repeat the pairing of warm timber fronts and stone-toned counters, keeping the palette consistent from floor to floor. Throughout, the controlled window sizes temper exposure to the street yet preserve a steady visual link to the surrounding forest.
Terrace Living Above The Tree Line
At the top, the attic opens to a sheltered terrace facing the treetops and distant infrastructure lines crossing the horizon. Tall parapet walls create a sense of enclosure while a low planter runs along the edge, softening the hard surface underfoot. Technical and service areas tuck into this level, freeing the lower garden from mechanical clutter and keeping the silhouette compact. From here, the layered relationship between house, forest, and sky comes into sharp focus.
By day, light tracks across white walls and timber decks while the forest canopy filters wind and sound. As evening settles, the glowing windows read as small, deliberate cuts in a quiet volume, reinforcing the house’s measured stance at the edge of the Atlantic Forest.
Photography courtesy of Nommo Arquitetos
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