17/06/2026
SÁ MIRANDA.
Regra e esquadro.
Angles and Advantages (and a few add-ons).
As homes for the family go, this one had to be special.
As our parents moved to their new place, and needed to find their ground fast in the new surroundings, there was a whole bunch of rules and routines that needed to feel right once again.
This place is not “foreign”, as our family has been here for decades, but the house is, and so everything is still finding the right balance between hits and runs, and tests&trials.
When you design a home where your parents and sister will live in (alongside loving FERA who is the dog everyone would take home), you’re designing something for someone who knows you better than anyone. Even if the house needed to feel like a visual “departure”, it needed to make sense.
The patience limit is therefore very low for talks like “Marcel Breuer did this in Budapest”, or “Renzo Piano used this concrete and iron-cast in Genoa”.
They just couldn’t care less.
SÁ MIRANDA is a loving balance between solutions and surprises (and beautiful angles), and an answer to a simple briefing: make it user-friendly, playful and dynamic in form.
Warmth is not an adjective you find often in Architecture articles.
Le Corbusier? Cold as ice.
Lloyd-Wright? Spiky as a prickly-pear.
As our parents would say: “These people would be happier if they had someone who loved them even when they broke their best China”.
They would. They definitely would.
Not everything needs to be iconic.
It needs to be iconoclastic.
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