Through the Tangerine House by EIXO Z, I will give you some tips that will solve traditional design and living problems.

When SESC (Social Service of Commerce) acquired the land of the old abandoned factory in the Pompéia neighborhood of São Paulo in the 1970s, the intention was clear: to provide a space for the physical and cultural well-being of workers. What was not so clear—even to the managers themselves—was that they would end up creating one of the most powerful works of 20th-century Latin American architecture.

The São Paulo Municipal Court of Auditors (TCMSP) building, designed by the renowned Croce, Aflalo & Gasperini studio, formed by architects Gian Carlo Gasperini, Plínio Croce, and Roberto Aflalo, was designed in 1970 with a clear institutional purpose. This work has established itself as one of the most emblematic examples of Brazilian brutalist architecture and a key reference point for brutalism in Latin America, standing out for its formal monumentality and bold elevated s

The Butantã House, designed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha in 1964, embodies a synthesis between concrete as a material and a social conception of domestic space. Framed within the Brazilian brutalist movement—particularly in its São Paulo iteration—this work becomes an architectural manifesto where the apparent structure, functionality, and openness to the environment dialogue with ideas of collectivity.