MINIMOD is a systemic open-exploration. It shows up as the primitive retreat with a contemporary reinterpretation. A device that connects us to our deepest roots: nature, landscape and our time. It´s dense and compact design dialogue with each and every site, presenting a minimalist addition and making each landscape accessible, plausible to be understood, explored and respected. Quiet but not shy, it puts aside protagonism to explore this new pure experience where man meets landscape: an invitation to inhabit the border between nature and artificial environment. MINIMOD exploration started in 2009 and still goes on. It`s very first prototype was constructed in Porto Alegre and installed in a lakeside in the southern wild landscapes. Happily, since then, quite a lot of new places have been explored. Both projects here presented belong to a new MINIMOD generation which inquires the idyllic Fazenda Catuçaba. This old Fazenda is located in the east of São Paulo Estate surrounded by a chain of coastal mountains. With undulating landscapes and dense vegetation, its captivating views invites to be explored. Catuçaba`s MINIMODs move away from the old central house and seek the perfect terrain for being introduced. On top of a hill, on the edge of a small pond, near a stream or on the bottom of a valley; each adapts to its new landscapes to empower them.

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