Casa Golf Residential House by David Guerra is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.
SilverArchitecture· 2026
Casa Golf Residential House
by David Guerra
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category
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About Casa Golf Residential House
Located on the edge of a golf course, this single story residence establishes a direct relationship between architecture and landscape. The design emphasizes horizontality, spatial continuity and visual openness, allowing living areas to expand toward gardens and distant views. Large glazed surfaces ensure natural light and ventilation, while sliding panels introduce flexibility between open and enclosed spaces. Natural materials, integrated leisure areas and a fluid L shaped layout create a balanced environment focused on comfort, functionality and everyday living.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Casa Golf Residential House is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Casa Golf Residential House is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Casa Golf Residential House is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
Interviews
Grand Interview
The seamless dialogue between interior and exterior space in Casa Golf Residential House is one of its most captivating qualities, with large glazed surfaces and sliding wooden panels creating a living environment that breathes alongside the bordering golf course landscape. Could you walk us through the moment when you understood that this level of spatial openness was not just desirable but architecturally essential to what Casa Golf Residential House needed to become?
The integration of architecture with nature is one of architecture’s greatest benefits. Nature is sovereign and, perhaps today more than ever, it is the most fundamental element in the creation of architectural space. Having access to the natural landscape and maintaining a connection with it is essential to the well-being of those who live in a place. For me, designing a house integrated with the golf course was always a fundamental premise. Once we had the opportunity to position the house along the edge of the course, it became clear that it should be fully connected and open to this setting.
The conversation around contemporary residential design increasingly centers on how homes can serve as genuine retreats that nourish the wellbeing of those who inhabit them, and Casa Golf Residential House appears to embody this philosophy with remarkable conviction. In what ways did the specific landscape of Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, and the golf course setting fundamentally shape the decisions you made about how the living areas of Casa Golf Residential House would orient themselves toward the outdoors?
In the world we live in today, where technology has made us increasingly anxious and overstimulated, nature is fundamental in bringing us back to our origins. It is a search for where we belong. For that reason, nature will become increasingly important in architecture, and in a genuine way, not only through planters or gardens that may later be changed, but through a real natural landscape. That is a great value. From the beginning of the design process, the premise was that the entire house should be connected to this natural heritage.
The integration of perforated aluminum brise-soleils alongside expansive glass panels in Casa Golf Residential House represents a nuanced response to one of residential architecture's most persistent tensions, namely the desire for openness versus the need for privacy and climate control. How did the technical development of this layered approach to transparency influence the broader spatial and sensory experience that Casa Golf Residential House ultimately delivers to its inhabitants?
The brise-soleils create a balance between the moments when I want to be exposed to the landscape and the moments when I want privacy. The entire private area is connected to these screens in such a way that, from the inside, I can perceive the entire natural landscape, while from the outside nothing can be seen. At night, this condition is reversed. However, there is no one on the golf course at night, since it closes after 6:00 p.m. So even with the lights on, people do not have that connection with the house. I think it is always a balance between protecting intimacy and, at the same time, remaining connected and open to the landscape, including from the bedrooms.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Located on the edge of a golf course, this residence was designed to enhance the open view and integration with the landscape. In response to the owner's desire for a single-story home, the project focuses on a light and contemporary architecture, with large, integrated spaces facing the landscape. The horizontal structure is based on a layout that emphasizes spatial fluidity and a constant dialogue between indoors and outdoors.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The project is a single-story residence with a conventional reinforced concrete structure. The L-shaped plan is elevated 1.5 m above the original site level to expand views and emphasize the architectural presence. Reduced slab thickness reinforces visual lightness, while a 4.0 m veranda projection enhances this effect. Social areas were organized to host large gatherings, with a 9.0 m table reinforcing the house’s role as a space for welcoming friends and family. Natural finishes such as wood and stone add warmth, and a continuous wooden slatted ceiling reinforces unity and horizontality.
- Tags
- architecture, house, contemporary, integration, landscape, natural materials
- Production Technology
- Large glass panels ensure transparency, cross ventilation and abundant natural light, blurring interior-exterior boundaries. Perforated aluminum brise-soleils provide privacy while still allowing light and views. Natural materials like stone and wood take center stage, bringing warmth, texture and timelessness to the composition. The wooden slatted ceiling reinforces the unity and horizontality of the project, while the 4-meter cantilevered veranda enhances the lightness of the structure.
- Design Challenge
- The central challenge was adapting the construction parameters while pursuing a fluid and visually light architecture. Site levels were raised by 1.5 meters to expand views toward the golf course and a revision of structural calculations to achieve thinner slabs was required to keep the architecture light. Technical systems were carefully integrated to preserve ceiling heights and spatial continuity. Precise attention to detailing, junctions and large openings ensured consistency between architecture, structure and interior elements.
- Research
- This project is based on applied design research focused on developing a fluid and light single-story house integrated with the landscape. The objective was to balance spatial continuity, structural lightness and everyday comfort. The process involved site analysis, revised structural calculations and material studies, supported by technical drawings. Architects, engineers and consultants worked jointly throughout the process. The results guided site leveling, slab refinement and technical integration, reinforcing the importance of detail and coordination in residential architecture.
- Inspiration
- In response to the owner's desire for a single-story home, the project focuses on a light and contemporary architecture, with large, integrated spaces facing the landscape. On one side, the living areas open to the gardens; on the other, to the golf course. More than just a country house, this is a contemporary retreat where architecture, landscape and quality of life intertwine in harmony and elegance. This home was designed as a space for hosting — friends, family and meaningful moments.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2022 in Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and finished in June 2025.
- Operation Flow
- The house operates through a clear and intuitive spatial organization that guides movement and use. Sliding wooden panels allow spaces to open or close as needed, transforming private areas into social ones with control over privacy and comfort. Circulation flows seamlessly between interior and exterior, enhancing usability, natural light, ventilation and interaction, resulting in a flexible and efficient living experience.
- Image Credits
- Photographer Jomar Bragança
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