Hera Phacz Home Residential Building by Integrare

Hera Phacz Home Residential Building by Integrare is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.

BronzeArchitecture· 2023

Hera Phacz Home Residential Building

by Integrare

Client: Phacz Empreendimentos

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category

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The Design

About Hera Phacz Home Residential Building

Hera Phacz Home is a residential building planned for an urban site in Porto Belo, Brazil. The thirty floor tower holds forty eight apartments, two on each floor, and a leisure area on the sixth floor. Six different types of plants alternate along the floors, giving the facade a strong sense of movement. Concrete, glass, metal, wood, native vegetation and LED lighting are used. The biophilic design brings nature into the city and supports the comfort and well-being of the residents. Shared spaces encourage social interaction.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Hera Phacz Home Residential Building is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Hera Phacz Home Residential Building is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Hera Phacz Home Residential Building splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

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Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The Hera is a sustainable and inventive residential building that seeks integration into the environment and well being of the residents in the same place. Another differential of the enterprise is in its conceptual design, construed to combine different types of plants along the floors. There are a total of six different plants alternating on all the floors. This results in a facade with unique characteristics and an enhanced sense of movement along the structure.
Dimensions & Packaging: The total area of the enterprise is that of 16.350,00 sqm, in a 1.120,00 sqm property, A 30 floor building, with total headroom of 110,82 meters and 48 residential units, 2 apartments per floor, with a headroom of 3,42 meters each, the building also includes a leisure area on the sixth floor
Tags: Biophilic Architecture, Different Floors, Innovation, Comfort, Modern
Production Technology: Concrete, glass, metal, wood, native vegetation, Led lighting
Design Challenge: The greatest challenge of the Hera was to devise a method to accommodate different combinations of types of plants on a vertical structure, preserving the building's functionality and allowing for a great variety of choices for future residents.
In addition, associating this myriad of possibilities to the biophilia has also generated a high level of complexity, once the enterprise would need to encompass all these variations and still be harmonic, fostering a connection with nature, well-being, and aesthetic quality
Research: The project team carried out extensive research on biophilic architecture and its benefits to human health and well-being, in addition, there was a considerable effort during the design phase of the apartment floor plans, to make it possible to design a tower with several combinations, but nonetheless feasible to build, Several possibilities were studied until the best outcomes were achieved, considering structural, sanitary plumbing, electrical and similar designs
Inspiration: Inspired by the concept of biophilic architecture, the purpose of the project is to bring nature into the urban environment and integrate it to the everyday life of the dwellers, thus creating benefits to their health and well-being and facilitating a dialogue with people's trend to seek for an additional connection with nature and peace of mind in the post-pandemic context. In addition, biophilia also contributes to the sustainability and preservation of the environment
Project Duration: The design phase started in July 2021, and was completed in December 2022, the construction starts in July 2023 and is expected to be completed in December 2027, Porto Belo, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Operation Flow: The project was developed with the purpose of allowing a unique life experience for the residents, combining comfort and the sophistication of a modern residential building, with the nature and peace of mind of a natural environment. The biophilic architecture of the project creates a harmonious interaction between the built space and the natural environment, offering a unique sensory experience to the dwellers, in addition, the building was designed to boost the integration between the dwellers, including common spaces that motivate who motivate interaction and socializing
Team Members: Carlos Alberto Pio Junior and Integrare Engenharia e Arquitetura Ltda
Image Credits: Oficina 3D