Ibiuna Prefabricated Casă de Weekend by Rodrigo Ohtake

Ibiuna Prefabricated Casă de Weekend by Rodrigo Ohtake is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award de Fier in Design de Arhitectură, Clădiri și Structuri Competition Category.

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Ibiuna Prefabricated Casă de Weekend

by Rodrigo Ohtake

Client: Ohtake

A' Design Award de Fier Winner in Arhitectură Category

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The Design

About Ibiuna Prefabricated Casă de Weekend

Acest proiect modular este conceput pentru a fi un exemplu de construcție realizată de om, dar în armonie cu natura. Provocarea a fost să se proiecteze o casă care să nu arate ca o casă modulară prefabricată. Soluția prezentată constă din mai multe module prefabricate conectate prin spații deschise. Un alt aspect important al Casei Ibiuna este modul rațional în care aceasta a fost integrată în teritoriu. Proiectul de construcție nu a generat acumularea de deșeuri sau resturi, iar proiectul este, de asemenea, eficient termic.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Fier

Ibiuna Prefabricated Casă de Weekend a câștigat A' Design Award de Fier, o recunoaștere prestigioasă acordată designurilor bune care îndeplinesc cerințele profesionale și industriale așteptate de la creații bine concepute. Câștigătorii Fierului demonstrează mare pricepere, înaltă specializare, înțelegere de specialitate și capacitate creativă din partea creatorilor lor. Se așteaptă ca Ibiuna Prefabricated Casă de Weekend să fie o creație foarte apreciată, admirată și prețuită, practică și inovatoare. Acest design câștigător al A' Design Award de Fier integrează cele mai bune practici din industrie și are caracteristici tehnice competente îmbinate cu know-how și talent. Pentru acuratețea sa, Ibiuna Prefabricated Casă de Weekend merită respect și este conceput pentru a aduce îmbunătățiri ale calității vieții care ajută la facerea lumii un loc mai bun.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The architect designed a prefabricated house that doesn't look like a modular prefabricated one. He couldn't deviate from the original modular design, so he put all the rooms in these spaces. If he put these rooms far from each other, then he can make the void between them to be the social area such as living room, dining room and kitchen. To cover this void, he used this industrial roof that can be cut in curves. For the facade, he created some curved walls and eaves to break the rectangular shape of the rooms.
Dimensions & Packaging: Construction area: 180m2
Land area: 20.000m2
Tags: prefabricated, modular, weekend house, nature
Production Technology: The architect designed the whole structure with the precious help of the Syshaus team that manufactured the house.

For the exterior walls, Rodrigo chose a thermo-insulated industrial wall covered with an aluminum plate.

The blue curved walls are made of perforated steel plate. The functions are: to break the rectangular shape of the bedroom modules, to give privacy to the rooms and to make the house surprising.

The ceiling is made of industrial steel beams. They don't have a formal bathroom, it is actually very integrated with the bedroom. The floor of the living room is wood.

The architect’s studio always uses color in our projects. To him, color represents joy. So he wanted this house to be something man-made in harmony with nature. He wanted to show that a prefabricated house is not only something urban. It can also be in nature.

Orange was the color the architect chose to be the protagonist of the interior. He wanted to be in contrast with the super powerful green of the nature that surrounds the house.

His favorite part of the house is the living room with a view of the trees. It is a wide space that is actually the void between the rooms with an industrial roof.

Waking up in the middle of nature is why they didn't put curtains in their bedroom. It is a unique feeling.

The architect designed most of the furniture.

For the pool, he wanted a curved design to be unusual.

The artwork is chosen by his wife. She is an art curator.
Design Challenge: When presented with the idea of The Ibiuna Weekend house, the main issue with its planning and construction was producing a design that felt as part of Rodrigo repertoire while under the limits established by the modular characteristic of Syshaus' manner of production.

Rodrigo’s design is constituted as an interaction between the shapes, volumes and the area in which those projects are scaled, producing unique manifestations. These qualities may prove worth on a daily basis, but when paired with a sense of mass production and celerity, they tend to put this relationship to the test.

Regardless of the trial ahead, answer where promptly presented. By narrowing the scope of utilized colors, separating the prefabricated modules and reducing the total numbers of curves distributed in the project to the necessary minimum. Rodrigo was capable of producing something that was still reasonable for Syshaus and still kept a sense of creativity and unusualness to the final product.
Inspiration: The architect, his wife and their three children use this weekend house. It is their weekend house in the country. They don't live there, they use it to get away from the city life, to relax after a busy week in the city and for the children to be in deep contact with nature.

They chose a house in the city of Ibiuna because it is an easy drive from São Paulo and it has a lot of nature to disconnect from the city.
Project Duration: Location: Ibiuna, SP, Brazil
Project duration: 06/2023 - 12/2023
Operation Flow: The Ibiuna Weekend house is set as a tenet and mould to a whole line of Syshaus modular houses. Being delivered across all regions of Brazil in a short span of time, primarily 120 days from the purchase.

Furthermore, the manner in which the house is built, with the void between the modular areas, allows customization beyond just the colors of the walls or the aspect of the floor, according to each end user's own preferences and behaviors.

Being able to differentiate one model to another, enables a non-standard line of products, enabling different sensations, benefits and necessities to each household.
Image Credits: Photographer: Filippo Bamberghi