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Retrofit transforms a forty-year-old house into a sustainable project

For his own home, architect Walter Schimmelpfeng (from the CASACOR Bahia cast) designed a calm, integrated, and connected home to nature.

By Nádia Sayuri Kaku

Submitted at Dec 1, 2025, 6:00 PM

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Retrofit transforma casa quadragenária em projeto sustentável

Retrofit transforma casa quadragenária em projeto sustentável (Divulgação/CASACOR)

The project of Casa 11 was born from the desire of architect Walter Schimmelpfeng and the Andrade Schimmelpfeng office (and cast of CASACOR Bahia) to exchange life in an apartment for the experience of living in a home connected to the street, to nature, and to a calmer life rhythm. The chosen residence—a construction over 40 years old that had been abandoned for a long time—called for a new breath of life. What was once memory has turned into movement: a smart and careful retrofit that respects history and embraces the present with functionality, light, and ease.