It utilizes
a basic slab-to-column in reinforced concrete structure
, in which
Niemeyer takes great sensitivities in the curved line and scale of form
(illustrated in the slenderness of the columns and the uniform thickness
of the slab). He allows the non-uniformities of the surrounding
environment to play with the structure, entering and surrounding it
as the center of both interior and exterior bound space. The rock, for
example, is the core concept around which the entire home is built.
It simultaneously penetrates and emerges from the home. From the
interior, the rock pushes through the walls and down into the lower
level. From the exterior, the rock emerges from the home and slides
quietly down into the pool. It plays with the entirety of the structure
with permanence and monstrous beauty, in slight echo of the grand
Serro do Mar Mountains nearby.