This home, which belongs to a 74-year-old domestic worker from Vila Matilde, a neighborhood on the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil, has won a prestigious international architecture award: Building of the Year, presented by ArchDaily.
The architecture firm Terra e Tuma participated in this project, drawing on its expertise to build this home quickly and inexpensively, since it had to stay within the budget of the owner, Delvina Borges Ramos.
A major storm destroyed part of his house in 2013, at which point he decided to remodel it.
Construction of the new house began in 2014 and took 6 months. It was necessary to demolish the old house and start construction from scratch, since the previous house had many structural and sanitary problems.
The lot on which the house stands is 25 meters long by 4.8 meters wide, and it has a small garden.
This house, with its unique design, had to It competed against more than 3,000 entries and won this international architecture award based on the votes of 55,000 people, approximately.
