Landscaping defines privacy and circulation in this 1600 m² house

Signed by the office Flavia D'Urso Paisagismo, from the lineup of CASACOR Minas Gerais, the landscaping project for this residence in Três Corações (MG) was developed in parallel with the architecture of the house, conceived by the office Paula Gonçalves Reis Arquitetura. Installed on a 1627 m² plot, with a built area of 1090 m², the residence belongs to a couple of mineiro entrepreneurs, parents of four children, who desired a garden capable of deeply and continuously dialoguing with the architecture.

The story of the project begins with a house marked by straight lines, defined shapes, robust structures, and a light palette. In contrast, the landscaping emerges with dense foliage, generous volumetry, rich textures, and an organic design, introducing curves and softness to break the rigidity of the built ensemble. Architecture and landscaping were conceived as an integrated whole from the beginning, allowing vegetation to be an element that grows alongside the house, shaping voids, creating privacy, and establishing constant visual connections between the projects and external spaces.

The residents desired an extravagant and elegant garden, with green as the protagonist, moving species and a distinctive identity, within a tropical proposal of low maintenance. The intention included ensuring privacy without blocking the view, creating strategic points of shade and coolness along the path, and achieving an imposing facade, while at the same time remaining clean and sophisticated, fully integrated into the spaces of the house.

The landscaping design was organized into sectors that directly respond to the use of the projects. In the main facade, the entrance is highlighted by a sculptural element of strong verticality, with the Washingtonia Palm as the protagonist, accompanied by dense foliage such as guaimbê and xanadu, along with base species that structure the whole.

On the sides of the residence, the vegetation acts as a soft visual barrier, distributed in layers that ensure gradual privacy, cross ventilation, thermal comfort, and green continuity between the front and the back. The leisure area — which includes swimming pool, gourmet space, and oratory — receives larger and more present species, responsible for creating shade, coolness, and visual integration, without interfering with circulation. In the interiors and balconies, the vegetation assumes an architectural role, filtering natural light, softening the lines of the construction, and reinforcing the fluid relationship between inside and outside.

The project concept adopts tropical landscaping as the guiding thread, marked by abundant textures, structured vegetation, and fluid volumetry. The inspiration comes from Brazilian landscaping, reinterpreted with the rigor of contemporary design, through continuous masses of foliage, a reduced chromatic palette, and elegant arrangements that make green the protagonist.

In total, the project includes over 50 plant species, including trees, palms, structural foliage, ornamental grasses, and ground covers, such as Washingtonia Palm, Guaimbê, Xanadu, Zâmia, Carandá, Butiá, Strelitzia augusta, Pandanus, Yucca rostrata, and Ficus lyrata. The selection favors large species that organize the visual axes, wide and sculptural tropical foliage that creates mass, in addition to grasses and moving species that bring lightness. Delicate ground covers weave the beds, while indoor potted plants function as living sculptures, ensuring unity, contrast, and permanence throughout all seasons.