Kubitschek House

(Former residence of former President Juscelino Kubitschek)

The Architectural Complex of Pampulha bequeathed a new direction for the modern project of the city of Belo Horizonte and a new paradigm for national architecture, according to the architect Lúcio Costa, in 1951. In this context, the residence of Juscelino Kubitschek in the lagoon shore, a project by architect Oscar Niemeyer of 1943, introduced a new reference in the designs for single-family residences, as well as its loose location on the land and surrounded by vegetation.

Inspired by both English and American models, the Kubitschek House indicated a new way of life. Pampulha, and later the Cidade Jardim neighborhood, incorporated the idea of ​​living in a Belo Horizonte with landscape treatment of urban spaces and open constructions for the landscape and dialogues with the environment.

With its butterfly roof, like that of the Yacht Tennis Club, the Kubitschek House was implanted on a plot of 2800 m², with great distance from the street, an interior patio and a leisure area with swimming pool and garden. The landscaping, a delight of the landscape architect Burle Marx, was restored in 2012. Internally, it has, since its construction, a panel of painters Alfredo Volpi and Paulo Werneck. The house is sectorized and of a single pavement, but with internal means-levels, taking advantage of the inclination of the land, which separate the social area from the intimate one.

The project mixes not only urbanism, architecture, landscaping and art, but also references to the baroque of the city of Diamantina, the owner’s native land, contributing to a typical Brazilian synthesis of modern national architecture.